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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

blues

· IPA /bluːz/
01 n. a type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholoy sound from repeated used …
  1. 1.
    a type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholoy sound from repeated used of blue notes.
  2. 2.
    a state of depression; as, he had a bad case of the blues.
Syn. megrims.