blues
[plural noun]
depression, doldrums, dumps (informal), gloom, low spirits, melancholy, unhappiness

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blues (blz)
pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
► A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the.
► A style of music evolved from southern African-American secular songs and usually distinguished by a syncopated 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first: “The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation” (B.B. King).

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blues
[Short for blue devils.]

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blues
bluesman n.
bluesy adj.

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blues
noun
I. type of slow sad music
VERB + BLUES play, sing He plays blues on the accordion. She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues.
BLUES + NOUN band, musician, singer | song 2 the blues state of feeling sad/depressed
QUANT. attack, fit a bad attack of the blues
VERB + BLUES have | get, suffer from | banish, beat I plan a holiday as a way to beat the blues.

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