A colored person; a person descended from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black white, Asian, Austronesian).
A colored article of clothing.
Having a color.
Having prominent colors; colorful.
Having a particular color or kind of color.
Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)
A black person.
A difficult, abstract problem that worsens as one attempts to handle it; a "sticky" situation, especially one where attempts to make it better only make it worse.