Examples of blue flu in a Sentence
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Holt gets to use some profanity that NBC won’t air before realizing something: The blue flu didn’t raise the crime rate.
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Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2021
Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2021
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Etymology
from the color of a police uniform
First Known Use
1967, in the meaning defined above
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“Blue flu.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blue%20flu. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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Legal Definition
blue flu
noun
: an organized absence from work by police officers on the pretext of sickness that is staged for the purpose of protest
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