black and blue

See also: black-and-blue

English

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Adjective

black and blue (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, of a person) Having obvious bruises of the skin, typically from falling or being hit or punched.
    My arm is still black and blue from slipping on the ice yesterday.

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