Meaning of Blues | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A feeling of sadness or depression.
   countable, informal, plural-normally, uncountable
2. Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:
   historical, informal
3. The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore blue.
   historical, informal
4. One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
   countable, in-plural, informal, plural-normally, singular, uncountable
5. Carlton Football Club.
   informal
6. The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience, or idea.
   countable, in-plural, informal, plural-normally, singular, uncountable
7. New South Wales.
   informal
8. Birmingham City FC.
   informal
9. A musical form, of African-American origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
   countable, uncountable
10. Everton FC.
    informal
11. A musical composition following blues forms.
    countable, singular, uncountable
12. A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
    countable, uncountable
13. Chelsea FC.
    informal
14. Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets.
    countable, slang, uncountable
15. Manchester City FC.
    informal

Equivalents

Examples

“I've got the blues today.”

“The blues have hit her hard, and she won't get out of bed.”

“If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen in the blues […]”

“Your blues is just like mine.”

“Your blues are just like mine.”

“I've got the lonely man's blues.”

“If you work here long enough, you'll have the butcher's blues just like me.”

“Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.”

“A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues.”

“My next number is a blues in G.”

“They marched in their dress blues.”

“You never planned on the bombs in the sand Or sleeping in your dress blues.”

“'Constantinople adopted the follies, though not the virtues of ancient Rome,' wrote Edward Gibbon, 'and the same factions which had agitated the circus raged with redoubled fury in the Hippodrome.' Gibbon's judgment was that what produced the 'redoubled fury' in the Hippodrome was senseless hooliganism, and even though the Blues and Greens could be politicized upon occasion, they had no coherent aims, religious or political. Gibbon's successors had alternative suggestions, the most persistent of which has been that the Blues were supporters of religious orthodoxy and the Greens of Monophysitism.”

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