1. State of dejection or gloom.
2. A style of music originating in the mid-nineteenth century from southern African-American secular songs usually featuring 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.
2. A style of music originating in the mid-nineteenth century from southern African-American secular songs usually featuring 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.
My friends have all left and forgotten me. I've got the blues.
“The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation” (B.B. King).
“The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation” (B.B. King).
by Mister Cellophane May 13, 2006
Get the bluesmug. The universal effect in which your tongue turns blue after eating or drinking a blue product such as a slushee or a lollipop.
by Cobiyashi November 22, 2011
Get the That Bluemug. Background: The Delta
Definition: n. The music you play and the songs you sing when you get blue . This music is often played in 12 bar melodies using the I-IV-V chord progression.
Definition: n. The bad shit that happens in your life to make you sing the blues .
Definition: n. The music you play and the songs you sing when you get blue . This music is often played in 12 bar melodies using the I-IV-V chord progression.
Definition: n. The bad shit that happens in your life to make you sing the blues .
by Wesley B. April 4, 2005
Get the bluesmug. by Jesus Kong December 28, 2005
Get the bluemug. by jamy. January 22, 2023
Get the bluemug. when you baby just died of cot death, ya wife left ya, you mom and dad died in a fire at their house, you hooked on coke and you've just been mugged, and you got a pain in the balls, you've just been stabbed, and it drives ya to pick up a guitar and learn to play the blues, but you realise you ain't got enough doe to buy a guitar, and the rent man is thinking of kickin you out. when you do finally get a guitar and learn to play it real well you get electrocuted and die cause you had a dodgy amp. then the devil grabs you keeps you in hell for eternity.
by paul hinton May 14, 2006
Get the bluesmug. Street name for the drug Roxicontin/Roxycodone used because they are small blue pills usually costing anywhere from $10-15.
by LadyJay January 5, 2010
Get the Bluesmug.