BLACK AND BLUE meaning: Bruised, battered, showing physical harm

We found 23 dictionaries that define the word black and blue:

General (21 matching dictionaries)

black-and-blue: Merriam-Webster
black and blue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
black-and-blue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
black-and-blue, black-and-blue: Collins English Dictionary
black-and-blue: Vocabulary.com
black and blue: Wordnik
black and blue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
black-and-blue, black and blue: Wiktionary
black-and-blue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
black-and-blue: Infoplease Dictionary
Black and blue, black-and-blue, black and blue: Dictionary.com
black-and-blue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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black-and-blue: Mnemonic Dictionary
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black and blue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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black-and-blue: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (black and blue)

▸ adjective: (colloquial, of a person) Having obvious bruises of the skin, typically from falling or being hit or punched.
▸ verb: (colloquial or slang) to bruise, to strike (a person in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it).

Opposite:

white, unbruised, unmarked, undamaged, uninjured

Phrases:

The Big Black and the Blue, a black and blue, more black and blue, more...

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