| blue law |
any law prohibiting drinking, dancing, working, or doing business on Sunday. |
| Blue Man Group |
a creative organization that provides performance-art theater in the form of a trio of blue-painted entertainers who incorporate such elements as food, odd props, rock music, and audience participation into their show. |
| bluenose |
a person with puritanical ways and attitudes; prude. |
| blue-pencil |
to edit or strike out with or as with a blue pencil. |
| blue point |
a variety of Siamese cat with a pale body and dark bluish gray points. |
| bluepoint |
a small oyster found mostly in beds near the eastern tip of Long Island. |
| blueprint |
a photographic print of architectural or mechanical drawings, usu. done with white lines on a blue background. [3 definitions] |
| blue-ribbon |
representing or being the best of a kind or type. |
| blue ribbon |
the emblem awarded as first prize in a contest or competition. [2 definitions] |
| blue-ribbon jury |
a jury specially selected for high intelligence, education, or other elite qualities. |
| blues |
(used with a pl. verb) a state of melancholy or depression. [2 definitions] |
| bluestocking |
a learned woman, esp. an intellectual and literary one. |
| blue streak |
(informal) something moving with or as with the speed of lightning. [2 definitions] |
| bluesy |
in music, of or resembling the blues. |
| bluet |
a blue-flowered plant such as the cornflower. |
| blue whale |
the largest whale, as much as one hundred feet long, with a bluish gray back, yellow undersides, and grooves running lengthwise on the throat and abdomen. |
| bluff1 |
a hill or shoreline with a steep face. [3 definitions] |
| bluff2 |
to mislead someone by using false pretenses. [6 definitions] |
| bluing |
a chemical substance, such as indigo, applied to laundry to keep it from yellowing. |
| blunder |
a careless or thoughtless mistake. [5 definitions] |
| blunderbuss |
an early shoulder-gun having a short barrel, flared at the muzzle to scattershot at close range. [2 definitions] |