All 15 Uses

blues
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Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
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The school board has decided that "Merryweather High-Home of the Trojans" didn't send a strong abstinence message, so they have transformed us into the Blue Devils.†
The Blue Devil mascot earns a standing ovation by back-flipping right into the principal.†
Oops-I mean Pride of the Blue Devils.†
BLUE ROSES.†
That was the day Ms. Keen wore a purple dress with bright blue roses.†
Heather looks like our Thanksgiving turkey wearing a blue bikini.†
He just sits on his stool, a blue broken cricket husk.†
It is painted one color, so blue it's almost black.†
It looks so out of place, those red splotches on blue.†
She's so blue, we're lust two.†
Besides all the naked women, he painted these blue pictures, like he ran out of red and green for a few weeks.†
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It is a blue Volvo, a safe Swedish box.†
They looked like models in a blue-jeans ad, thinthinthin, big lips, big earrings, white smiles.†
Blue and cherry lights flashing in the kitchen-sink window.†
The lecture starts with some priest named Greg who studied vegetables, and ends up with an argument about blue eyes.†

Definitions:

(1) (blues as in: sings the blues)
a style of music that originated among African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a "soulful" or melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes

Blue notes are notes that are sung or played slightly lower than they would be in the major scale—especially the flattened third, fifth, and seventh degrees.
(2) (blues as in: feeling the blues)
feelings of sadness or depression
(3) (meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus)
"Blues" more commonly describes shades of the color.