| blues | |
| 1. n. plural of blue | |
| 2. n. (usually informal) 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. | |
| 3. n. (singular or informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced. | |
| Your blues is just like mine. | |
| Your blues are just like mine. | |
| 4. n. (singular or informal) 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. | |
| 5. n. (music genre) A musical form, African-American in 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. | |
| 6. n. (music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms. | |
| My next number is a blues in G. | |
| 7. n. A uniform made principally of a blue fabric. | |
| The marched in their dress blues. | |
| 8. n. (sports) Any of a number of sports teams which wear blue kit. | |
| 9. n. (Australian rules football) Carlton Football Club. | |
| 10. n. (rugby league) New South Wales. | |
| 11. n. (soccer, Birmingham) Birmingham City FC. | |
| 12. n. (soccer, Liverpool) Everton FC. | |
| 13. n. (soccer, London) Chelsea FC. | |
| 14. n. (soccer, Manchester) Manchester City FC. | |
| 15. v. third-person singular present indicative of blue | |
