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young blood en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (idiomatic, uncountable) Young or youthful people, especially as a source of revitalizing force (in a team, organization, etc.).
   • Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day. 1862 August – 1863 March, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., published 1863, →OCLC:
2. (countable, idiomatic) A young person (especially a man); also as a term of address.
   • Every Saturday evening, raw young bloods of the village would meet for a drink, and the wine made us lively. We stuck a sprig of basil behind our ears, one of my cousins took his guitar, and we went serenading. 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 4, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 46:
3. (idiomatic, uncountable) Youthful, revitalizing, or youth-oriented ideas.

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Synonyms

youth · fresh blood · new blood