full blue

noun

Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for the highest level of sporting achievement, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England; contrasted with half blue.

Meanings

nounfull blue (plural full blues)

plural full blues

  1. Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for the highest level of sporting achievement, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England; contrasted with half blue.
  2. A person who has received such sporting colours.
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Chicago

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