half-blue

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noun

(at Oxford and Cambridge universities) a sportsman who substitutes for a full blue or who represents the university in a minor sportCompare blue (def. 4)

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Words nearby half-blue

half binding, half-blind, half-blind joint, half blood, half-blooded, half-blue, half board, half boot, half-bottle, half-bound, half-breadth plan

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How to use half-blue in a sentence

Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
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Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
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Yeah, the “Giant man-puppy” that is Gronkowski won't hold a sexual candle to the blue-eyed dreamboat.
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My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
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As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.
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It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
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A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
In pursuing his alchemical researches, he discovered Prussian blue, and the animal oil which bears his name.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.
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