blue
/blu/ noun A1- The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour. · I don't like red Smarties. Have you got a blue?
- A blue dye or pigment.
- Blue clothing. · The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
- A blue uniform. See blues.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues. · Come on, you blues!
- An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call. · He was safe! Terrible call, blue!
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue. · He excelled at rowing and received a blue in the sport at Oxford.
Plural blues
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It was full of a new vital, pulsing personality that seemed to pervade it and to be quite independent of schoolgirl books and dresses and ribbons, and even of the cracked blue jug full of apple blossoms on the table.
“Everything is green here, while in the country of the Munchkins blue was the favorite color.
There were big yellow and white and blue and purple blossoms, besides great clusters of scarlet poppies, which were so brilliant in color they almost dazzled Dorothy’s eyes.
“‘Blue paint is just the color for eyes.’
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