Third-person singular simple present indicative form of strike one's colors

simple past tense and past participle of strike one's colors

past participle of strike one's colors

(US, dated derogatory slang, sometimes reclaimed) Synonym of Colored People's Time.

plural of rose-colored starling

(graph theory) A theorem stating that given any separation of a plane into contiguous regions, producing a figure called a map, no more than four colors are required to color the regions so that no two adjacent regions have the same color (adjacent being defined as two regions sharing a boundary, not counting corners, in which three or more regions share a boundary).

plural of rose-colored pastor

Thamnophilus murinus, a passerine bird of the antbird family, native to South America.

(American spelling, idiomatic) An unrelated or only incidentally related matter with distinctly different significance.

(US, dated derogatory slang, sometimes reclaimed) A notional system of time (or time zone) which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to African Americans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be tardy.