Usually means: Bruised, battered, showing skin damage.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word black-and-blue:

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  1. black-and-blue: Merriam-Webster
  2. black-and-blue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. black-and-blue, black-and-blue: Collins English Dictionary
  4. black-and-blue: Vocabulary.com
  5. black-and-blue: Wiktionary
  6. black-and-blue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. black-and-blue: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. black-and-blue: Dictionary.com
  9. black-and-blue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Black-and-blue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. black-and-blue: Rhymezone
  12. black-and-blue: FreeDictionary.org
  13. black-and-blue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. black-and-blue: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. black-and-blue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. black-and-blue: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. black-and-blue: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (Black-and-blue)

adjective:  Alternative form of black and blue [(colloquial, of a person) Having obvious bruises of the skin, typically from falling or being hit or punched.]

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