blues
noun/bluːz/
7 senses
- 1A feeling of sadness or depression.
- 2One's particular life experience, particularly including…
- 3The negative emotional state produced by a particular…
- 4A musical form, of African-American origin, generally…
- 5A musical composition following blues forms.
- 6A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and…
- 7Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking…
Informal, Plural normally A feeling of sadness or depression.
- I've got the blues today.
- The blues have hit her hard, and she won't get out of bed.
1 more example
- If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen in the blues […]1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
In plural, Informal, Plural normally One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
- Your blues is just like mine.
- Your blues are just like mine.
In plural, Informal, Plural normally The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience, or idea.
- I've got the lonely man's blues.
- If you work here long enough, you'll have the butcher's blues just like me.
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A musical form, of African-American origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
- Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.
- A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues.
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A musical composition following blues forms.
- My next number is a blues in G.
A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
- They marched in their dress blues.
- You never planned on the bombs in the sand Or sleeping in your dress blues.2007, Jason Isbell, Dress Blues:
Drugs, Medicine, Pharmacology, Sciences Slang Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription painkiller tablets.
- Derived terms
51 terms
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