Hypertext Webster Gateway: "blues"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
blues
n 1: a type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at
the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy
sound from repeated use of blue notes
2: an informal term for a state of depression; "he had a bad
case of the blues" [syn: {megrims}]
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