blues

Etymology 1

noun

1. plural of blue

Etymology 2

noun

1. (usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
   1. (singular or plural, informal) 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. (singular or plural, informal) 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, African-American in 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, always 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.
   They marched in their dress blues.
   You never planned on the bombs in the sand Or sleeping in your dress blues. 2007, Jason Isbell, Dress Blues
4. (sports) Any of a number of sports teams which wear blue kit.
   1. (Australian rules football) Carlton Football Club.
   2. (rugby league) New South Wales.
   3. (soccer, Birmingham) Birmingham City FC.
   4. (soccer, Liverpool) Everton FC.
   5. (soccer, London) Chelsea FC.
   6. (soccer, Manchester) Manchester City FC.
5. (drug slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets but often laced with fentanyl that leads to overdose deaths (see opioid epidemic).

Etymology 3

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of blue