<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The blues (used with a plural verb): depressed spirits; despondency; melancholy.<ul><li>Example: This rainy spell is giving me the blues.</li></ul></li><li>(Used with a singular verb): Jazz.<ul><li>A song, originating with African Americans, that is marked by the frequent occurrence of blue notes and takes the basic form, customarily improvised upon in performance, of a 12-bar chorus consisting of a 3-line stanza with the second line repeating the first.</li><li>The genre constituting such songs.</li></ul></li></ul>