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full blue

full blue noun: sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for the highest level of sporting achievement, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England; contrasted with half blue.

Noun

full blue (plural full blues)

  1. Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for the highest level of sporting achievement, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England; contrasted with half blue.
  2. A person who has received such sporting colours.

Forms of full blue

pluralfull blues

Questions about full blue

What does full blue mean?
Full blue means sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for the highest level of sporting achievement, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England; contrasted with half blue.
What part of speech is full blue?
Full blue is a noun.
What is the plural of full blue?
The plural of full blue is full blues.

Words near full blue in the dictionary

  1. full birds
  2. full blast
  3. full blood count
  4. full blood counts
  5. full bloom
  6. full blue
  7. full blues
  8. full board
  9. full boat
  10. full boats
  11. full body scanner

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