(military) Friendly fire.

Having blue as its color. / (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad. / (health care) Having a bluish or purplish shade of the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep red blood cells.

(countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and purple in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.

(ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue. / (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.

(transitive, slang, dated) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.

plural of blue

(singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blue

(informal) any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as: / The New South Wales Blues.

A surname from German. An anglicization of German Blau. / (rare) A female given name from English, typically used in conjoined names like Bonnie Blue or Blue Bell.