1 (often the blues) [U] a type of slow sad music with strong rhythms, developed by African American musicians in the southern US:
a blues band / singer
2 [C] (plural blues) a blues song
3 (the blues) [pl.] feelings of deep sadness:
the Monday morning blues
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