blues vs sport

blues

noun
  • The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience or idea. 

  • Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets but often laced with fentanyl that leads to overdose deaths (see opioid epidemic). 

  • One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced. 

  • New South Wales. 

  • Manchester City FC. 

  • A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale. 

  • Carlton Football Club. 

  • A musical composition following blues forms. 

  • Everton FC. 

  • A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored. 

  • Chelsea FC. 

  • A feeling of sadness or depression. 

  • Birmingham City FC. 

sport

noun
  • Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. 

  • A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question) 

  • Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy. 

  • A sportsman; a gambler. 

  • One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes. 

  • A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship. 

  • A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. 

  • Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing. 

  • Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport. 

  • A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects. 

verb
  • To display; to have as a notable feature. 

  • To close (a door). 

  • To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with. 

  • To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. 

  • To amuse oneself, to play. 

  • To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. 

  • To divert; to amuse; to make merry. 

  • To represent by any kind of play. 

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