blues

About 5.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun plural of blue
2. noun A feeling of sadness or depression.

   I've got the blues today.

3. noun One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.

   Your blues is just like mine.

4. noun The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience, or idea.

   I've got the lonely man's blues.

5. noun 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.

6. noun A musical composition following blues forms.

   My next number is a blues in G.

7. noun A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.

   They marched in their dress blues.

8. noun Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription painkiller tablets.

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