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trueblue

trueblue is the alternative form of true blue.

Meaning of true blue

Noun

true blue (countable and uncountable, plural true blues)

  1. (countable) A faithful partisan or supporter of a cause, person, political party, etc.
    • A mild Liberalism prevailed, a Liberalism that would be regarded as hide-bound Toryism now, but was daring enough in those days. One man who had been to work in Northampton proclaimed himself a Radical; but he was cancelled out by the landlord, who called himself a ‘true blue’.1939, Flora Thompson, “At the ‘Wagon and Horses’”, in Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy, London: Penguin Books, published 1973, →ISBN, pages 65–66
  2. (historical, uncountable) A blue dye from Coventry, England, famous for not washing out.
  3. (color models and color spaces) A precisely defined pure blue, as for example web color #0000FF = RGB(0,0,255).

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Forms of trueblue

pluraltrueblues

Questions about trueblue

What is trueblue the alternative form of?
Trueblue is the alternative form of true blue.

Words near trueblue in the dictionary

  1. Truebas
  2. Truebie
  3. Truebies
  4. Trueblood
  5. Truebloods
  6. trueblue
  7. trueblues
  8. trueborn
  9. trueborns
  10. truebred
  11. truecel

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