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blue adjective- depressed, sad UK, 1821
- — Gram Parsons, Still Feeling Blue, 1973
- Sometimes I feel blue, sometimes I see red, sometimes I’m green with envy.... I’m Amber Brown[.] — Paula Danziger, Amber Brown is Feeling Blue, p. back matter, 1998
- [A] difficulty in maintaining erections during a two week period when he was feeling blue. — David D. Burns, Feeling Good, p. 58, 1999
- sexually explicit, pornographic UK, 1864
- Angela Hoffa hung up her pink telephone and muttered a blue word. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 70, 1957
- [B]ut then one night he took us to a blue movie, and what do you suppose? There he was on the screen — Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, p. 61, 1958
- [H]is material was blue and old, but after a while I was laughing too[.] — Dick Gregory, Nigger, p. 101, 1964
- I’ve always enjoyed the various “blue” French 16mm I’ve come across. — Screw, p. 2, 4 July 1969
- Assuming it would be a reverse version of the stag parties our dad had routinely attended when we were young–which probably involved a lot of cigar smoke and blue movies and G-strings dangling over empty shot glasses–I had not attended. — Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, p. 12, 1999
▶ all blue in poker, a flush consisting of clubs or spades US- — Albert H. Morehead, The Complete Guide to Winning Poker, p. 255, 1967
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