(US politics) A surge of voters supporting the candidates of the Democratic Party during an election (especially a midterm election), which results in the party making significant gains.

(informal, psychology) Seasonal affective disorder during the summer season.

Japan national football team

(idiomatic) Thinking that is not grounded or in touch with the realities of the present; open-minded thinking.

(music) A blues form built on an eight-measure chord pattern, most typically I, I, IV, I, V7, IV, I, V7, where I, IV and V7 represent the tonic, subdominant and dominant seventh chords respectively.

(music) A blues form built on a twelve-measure chord progression, most typically based around the tonic, subdominant and dominant seventh chords of a key.

(idiomatic) To talk for a long duration of time, at a rapid pace without giving others a chance to speak, or to the point of tedium.

plural of blue-green alga

Any member of the taxonomic class or phylum Cyanobacteria; a primitive photosynthetic organism similar to bacteria which is thought to have generated the first oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.

a rate of pay that is below average for the type of work in question.