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What does black and blue mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word black and blue? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (colloquial, of a person) Having obvious bruises of the skin, typically from falling or being hit or punched.
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One bloke who was wearing nifty black and blue shoes had a trick where he dropped down onto one hand.
He was not injured except for a few scratches and black and blue marks over both shoulders caused by the harness straps when the chute opened.
True, I had been black and blue from the beating he had given me, and he had nearly drowned me, but what I had done was no better.
He creates a play of black and blue colours to set the backdrop and on this he places three boats, with bright lights gleaming from them.
They weren't only black and blue, they were whipped, and their wounds were full of scabs, cracked and bleeding.
An 80-year-old woman has been left black and blue after crashing to the ground four times on pavements near her home.

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