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名詞

blues

1. plural of blue

語源 2

名詞

blues (countable and uncountable, plural blues)

1. (usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.

   Synonyms: blueness; see also Thesaurus:sadness

   I've got the blues today.

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

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

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

   1. (informal, in the singular or in the plural) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.

      Your blues is just like mine.

      Your blues are just like mine.

   2. (informal, in the singular or in the plural) 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.

2. (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.

   1. (music, in the singular) A musical composition following blues forms.

      My next number is a blues in G.

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

   Coordinate terms: camos, fatigues, greens, khakis

   They marched in their dress blues.

   • 2007, Jason Isbell, Dress Blues:

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

4. (drugs, slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets.

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動詞

blues

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of blue

Further reading

• blues on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Buels, bulse, lubes