blue devils

plural noun
1.
low spirits; depression.
2.
delirium tremens.
Origin
1780-90

blue devil

noun, Slang.
1.
blue heaven.

blue heaven

noun, Slang.
1.
a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
Also called blue angel, blue devil.
Examples from the web for blue devils
  • Legions of blue devils are impaled on those parallel bars.
British Dictionary definitions for blue devils

blue devils

plural noun
1.
a fit of depression or melancholy
2.
an attack of delirium tremens
Contemporary definitions for blue devils
noun

See mubblefubbles

blue devils in Medicine

blue devil n.

  1. A blue capsule or tablet containing barbiturate amobarbital or its sodium derivative.

  2. A feeling of depression; despondency.

Slang definitions & phrases for blue devils

blue devils

noun
  1. Low spirits; depression: blue devils after giving birth
  2. Delirium tremens

blue heaven

n phr,n

A capsule of Amytal2, a type of barbiturate

[1950s+ Narcotics; perhaps fr a 1920s popular song ''My Blue Heaven'']