black and blue love

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied with a mixture of blue.
  • adjective discolored by or as if by bruising; -- of skin.

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  • adjective colloquial, idiomatic, of a person Having obvious bruises of the skin, typically from falling or being hit or punched.

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  • adjective discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin

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