Blue Shift

The increase in the frequency of starlight because of the Doppler shift. If a yellow star is moving toward you, it's light will appear slightly bluish. In outer space, blue shifted galaxies are rare. Blue shift can also be created by shrinking the space between two points via gravity or space warps.

Red shift is more common than blue shift because most objects in our expaning universe are moving away from us.

by OneBadAsp October 21, 2006

Blue Shift

1. The political change of the United States in favor of liberalism.

2. A commercial expansion pack for the popular computer game Half-Life that is commonly mocked with the name "Blue Shit". In my opninion, it is a good expansion that gets lots of hate for being a little too short. It also included the high definition pack for Half-Life and Half-Life: Opposing force which enchanced the graphics with new 3D models.

1. There is a blue shift in washington going on
2. I just got Blue Shift and the high def pack.

by gothrocker0207 September 27, 2005

Blue shift

An excuse to talk your way out of a ticket for running a red light. Unfortunately, your speeding ticket will be astronomical.

(If you don't get it, you're probably not going to get it.
Maybe look it up in a real dictionary first).

Officer: May I see your license and registration sir?
* you hand him the materials *
Officer: Do you realize that you were speeding and ran a red light?
You: Well, I'll admit to speeding but I'm not sure about the red light.
Officer: It sure looked red to me!
You: Not to me! Maybe I was going fast enough such that the blue shift rendered the... what I'm assuming was a red light... Blue! (or more conservatively, yellow).
Officer: I suppose it's all relative.
You: Exactly.

by ephoph November 26, 2010

Blue Shift

n. The political change of the United States in favor of liberalism.

(this makes reference to the red states being pro-GOP, and the Blue, pro-Dems)

See Red Shift

FDR marked a long period of Blue Shift. He won four elections, and created the liberal/'liberal' media, depending on your opinion, and at his death, nearly all of the federal judges in the supreme and apellate judges were appointed by him.

by Aktopus December 8, 2004

Blue Shift

The bestest most awesome game of all time "Half Life: Blue Shift" was , is an expansion pack for the legendary fps game "Half Life" in which you play as a kickass security guard called "Barney Calhoun" and do cool as fuck security guard stuff and shoot people and aliens and protect scientists! It is widely believed that this is canon and the backstory as to how Barney Calhoun in Half Life 2 came to be despite blue shift being developed by gearbox. It is worth mentioning Blue Shift is unique in how you , the protagonist are the only protag from a half life game to not get gman all up in your shit , this is because Barney is a fucking badass. The mod " Black mesa: Blue shift" is with mentioning as while not the offical blue shift it perfectly adapts what it was, is and was meant to be or what it could of been and helped people understand how kickass blue shift is

Blue shift enjoyer: man i love blue shift, the expansion pack for half life
Guy who is going to be shot: blue shift? More like blue shit!!!
Jesus: not cool dude.

by BlueShiftGlazer March 15, 2026

Blue-shifted

When someone steals a person's idea or intellectual property, e.g. art. Especially when they pretend it didn't happen.

"You drew that picture they're using? Man, you got blue-shifted."

by VinchenzoC August 16, 2025

Blueshift

The moment in time when you put a car between it's 4th and 5th gears, in order to gain access to the "Blueshift Dimension". Term coined by James Willems

Adam: "I can't catch him!"
Lawrence: "Don't do it, it's too dangerous!"
Adam: "This is for you, little bro!"
*Goes into Blueshift*
Lawrence: "Brother nooo!"

by EarthCuck February 16, 2018