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young bloods

young bloods is the plural of young blood.

Meaning of young blood

Noun

young blood (countable and uncountable, plural young bloods)

  1. (idiomatic, uncountable) Young or youthful people, especially as a source of revitalizing force (in a team, organization, etc.).
    • Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.1862 August – 1863 March, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., published 1863, →OCLC
  2. (countable, idiomatic) A young person (especially a man); also as a term of address.
    • Every Saturday evening, raw young bloods of the village would meet for a drink, and the wine made us lively. We stuck a sprig of basil behind our ears, one of my cousins took his guitar, and we went serenading.1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 4, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi...
  3. (idiomatic, uncountable) Youthful, revitalizing, or youth-oriented ideas.

Questions about young bloods

What is young bloods the plural of?
Young bloods is the plural of young blood.

Words near young bloods in the dictionary

  1. young adults
  2. Young America
  3. young and keen
  4. young at heart
  5. young blood
  6. young bloods
  7. young boul
  8. young boy
  9. young boys
  10. young buck
  11. young bucks

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