Yellow dog
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Yellow dog can mean:
- A Yellow Dog contract is legal contract or agreement made between and employer and an employee, wherein the employer agrees to employ the employee, and in exchange the employee agrees not to join or associate with a labor union.
- Yellow dog Democrats is an American political term for voters in Southern states who consistently vote for Democratic candidates.
- Yellow Dog Dingo is a character in The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, one of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. See also List of fictional dogs.
- In computing, Yellow Dog Linux is a distribution of the Linux operating system released by Terra Soft Solutions.
- Yellow Dog is a Beatles bootlegger, responsible for Unsurpassed Masters, Day by Day, and many other high quality CDs. Yellow Dog is closely tied with Vigotone.
- Yellow Dog is the name of a minor 1970s band, who charted in the UK with One More Night.
- Yellow Dog or Yaller Dog is an almost "archetypal" dog: small to medium size, yellow with black markings, a somewhat "sheperdy" feature set with a moderately long nose and pointy ears. There is speculation that if you mix enough modern dog genes you end up with something close to the "proto-dog" that all domestic dogs came from. Sometimes called the "Carolina Dog".[1] (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0311_030311_firstdog.html)
- Yellow Dog is the title of a 2003 novel by British novelist Martin Amis.