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blue

1. mod. depressed; melancholy. That music always makes me blue.

2. mod. obscene; vulgar; dirty. Those blue jokes don’t go over very well around here.

3. n. the sky; the heavens. The idea came to me right out of the blue.

4. mod. alcohol intoxicated. You might say I’m blue. Others might note that I am stoned.

5. n. an amphetamine tablet or capsule, especially a blue one. (Drugs.) How are blues different from reds and yellows?

6. n. a police officer; the police. The blues will be here in a minute.

7. n. a 10-mg tablet of Valium. (Drugs.) In treatment they kept giving me blues to calm me down. Now I can’t live without them.

See:

• a blue-eyed boy
• a bolt from the blue
• be in a (blue) funk
• be in a blue funk
• between a rock and a hard place
• between the devil and the deep blue sea
• big blue
• black and blue
• black-and-blue
• blue
• blue and white
• blue around the gills
• blue balls
• blue blood
• blue book
• blue boys
• blue chamber
• blue chip
• blue coats
• blue code of silence
• blue collar
• blue devils
• blue eyed
• blue eyed boy
• blue eyed girl
• blue film
• blue flu
• blue funk
• blue funk, in a
• blue gown
• blue in the face
• Blue Lives Matter
• blue moon
• blue movie
• blue note
• blue ribbon
• blue screen of death
• blue state
• blue streak
• blue suit
• blue wall of silence
• blue-collar
• blue-eyed
• blue-sky thinking
• bolt from the blue
• bolt from the blue, a
• boys in blue
• burn with a low blue flame
• caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
• come out of a clear blue sky
• curse a blue streak
• cuss a blue streak
• Damn it to blue blazes!
• devil and deep blue sea
• dip into the blue
• feel blue
• go blue
• have the blues
• hoist the blue peter
• in a blue funk
• in blue blazes?
• into the blue
• into the wide blue yonder
• into thin air
• like a bolt from the blue
• like a bolt out of the blue
• like blue blazes
• like greased lightning
• little boy blue
• look through blue glasses
• men in blue
• once in a blue moon
• out of a clear blue sky
• out of the blue
• out of the clear blue sky
• pale around the gills
• run around like a blue-arsed fly
• scream blue murder
• screwed, blued, and tattooed
• swear a blue streak
• swear blind
• talk a blue streak
• talk someone's arm off
• talk until one is blue in the face
• the boys in blue
• till (one) (is) blue in the face
• true blue
• true-blue
• turn the air blue
• until are blue in the face