bluesnoun [ U ]
uk/bluːz/us/bluːz/a type of slow, sad music, originally from the southern US, in which the singer typically sings about their difficult life or bad luck in love:
Billie Holiday was famous for singing the blues.
a famous blues singer
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blue
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Jazz & blues
- acid jazz
- bebop
- bop
- dixieland
- free jazz
- funky
- honky-tonk
- jazz
- jazzy
- modern jazz
- R & B
- rhythm and blues
- scat
- skiffle
- stride piano
- swing
- trad
- twelve-bar blues
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Idiom(s)
have the blues