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 01, 2006
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 June 06, 2011
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 05, 2005
by Jesus Kong October 20, 2005
by jamy. January 22, 2023
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 03, 2006
Street name for the drug Roxicontin/Roxycodone used because they are small blue pills usually costing anywhere from $10-15.
by LadyJay January 06, 2010