blue devils
Noun
Meaning
a state of depression
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he had a bad case of the blues
After a snap over the quarterback’s head, Blue Devils lineman Eli Rich picked up the loose ball and raced to the Bishop Canevin 9. On fourth down, Cook found Rich on a slant left for a touchdown.
Against Duke, Syracuse was out-rebounded 47 to 33, surrendered 19 fast break points, and allowed the Blue Devils to shoot 49.3%, with most of their shots coming in the paint.
Barnette knocked down another trey at the start of the second to put Good Hope in front 20-12 but the Blue Devils were able to cut it to 20-17 as the period went on.
Blue Devils freshman Tatyana (with ball) is swarmed under by a pair of PC Quakers, senior Kait Carter (left) and freshman Kelsey Bess.
Etymology The term blues may have come from "blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is in George Colman 's one-act farce Blue Devils (1798).