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Blue devils

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Low spirits; depression. idiomatic, plural, plural-only, slang

    ""[…] the disease is either extinct, or exists in such a mild form that a short course of aperient medicine carries it off. It is sometimes called the Blue-devils now or the Mulleygrubs. Queer names, ain't they?""

  2. 2
    a state of depression wordnet
  3. 3
    Depressants, especially the barbiturate amobarbital. figuratively, plural, plural-only, slang

Etymology

Originally apparitions supposed to be seen by sufferers of delirium tremens.

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