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antiblue en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + blue.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, particle) Describing one of the three possible colours of an antiquark, corresponding to blue in a quark.
   • For example, the tetraquark can split up into a red antired meson and a blue antiblue meson. 2016, Gavin Hesketh, The Particle Zoo:
2. (US, colloquial) Antipolice.
   • Anyone who allowed banned activities to take place on his owned or rented property faced police citations and fines. It took only two years, however, for anti-blue law sentiment to arise, and various exceptions to the original ordinance were passed […] 2003, Fred Miller, Ocean City:
   • Time Warner […] was also home to Ice-T, whose “Cop Killer” was pointedly and recklessly antiblue in the wake of the 1992 L.A. riots, even if the track had been intended as a statement against police brutality—a generation before the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:

Forms

Translations (3)

it antiblu (one of the possible colours of an antiquark) · pt antiazul (one of the possible colours of an antiquark) · fr antibleu (one of the possible colours of an antiquark)