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Definition of Big blue

1. Noun. A reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius; the largest conventional bomb in existence; used in Afghanistan.

Definition of Big blue

1. Proper noun. (informal) The computer company w:IBM IBM. ¹

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Literary usage of Big blue

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1904)
"The big blue Lick is perhaps an object of as universal notoriety as any in Kentucky. But there are two Blue Licks on the same creek, and both of them are ..."

2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"I pushed on the next day to the Little Blue, on- gaged Price's troops, captured two pieces of cannon, and drove them back to the big blue, ..."

3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of ...by Reuben Gold Thwaites by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1907)
"big blue, tributary, XXX, 44. Big Bone Lick, Cuming on, IV, 257; origin of name, 257. ... See Rivers: big blue. Bœuf, Bradbury on, V, 44. ..."

4. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1868)
"Many of the hills crossed by the big blue are capped with lava or basalt, which covered much of the country from near the summit of the range to about three ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"The course from the Elkhorn to the big blue is largely conjectural. ... It may possibly have reached the big blue by Skull Creek and Oak Creek passing a ..."

6. The American Fur Trade of the Far West: A History of the Pioneer Trading by Hiram Martin Chittenden (1901)
"Now known as the Black Vermilion, a tributary of the big blue. ... big blue, 174 miles. The ford was near the mouth of the Little Blue. ..."

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