big blue

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Definition of big blue in English English dictionary

The computer company IBM

an informal name for the computer company IBM

nickname for the IBM Corporation

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

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A river rising in southeast Nebraska and flowing about 483 km (300 mi) east and southeast to the Kansas River in northeast Kansas near Manhattan

Hyphenation

big Blue

Turkish pronunciation

bîg blu

Pronunciation

/ˈbəg ˈblo͞o/ /ˈbɪɡ ˈbluː/

Etymology

() From the colour of the company logo.