Usually means: Second full moon in month.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word blue moon:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. blue moon: Merriam-Webster
  2. blue moon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. blue moon: Collins English Dictionary
  4. blue moon: Vocabulary.com
  5. blue moon: Wordnik
  6. blue moon: Wiktionary
  7. blue moon: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. blue moon: Dictionary.com
  9. blue moon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Blue Moon (Beck song), Blue Moon (Carmen McRae album), Blue Moon (Child novel), Blue Moon (Hamilton novel), Blue Moon (Noel novel), Blue Moon (Steve Holy album), Blue Moon (Steve Holy song), Blue Moon (The Marcels album), Blue Moon (Toby Keith album), Blue Moon (beer), Blue Moon (disambiguation), Blue Moon (game), Blue Moon (ice cream), Blue Moon (song), Blue Moon (spacecraft), Blue Moon, Blue moon (ice cream), Blue moon, The Blue Moon (film), The Blue Moon (musical): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. blue moon: Rhymezone
  12. Blue Moon: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  13. Blue Moon: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. Blue Moon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. blue moon: FreeDictionary.org
  16. blue moon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Blue Moon: The Word Detective
  18. blue moon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Blue moon: World Wide Words

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Blue Moon: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. BLUE MOON: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blue moon, blue moon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See blue_mooning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (blue moon)

noun:  (countable) An extra full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year, namely:
noun:  The third full moon in a season that contains four rather than the usual three full moons.
noun:  The second of two full moons that occur in the same calendar month (a definition created by mistake in the 20th century).
noun:  (countable, rare) The moon tinted towards blue as it appears in the sky, caused by dust or smoke in the atmosphere.
noun:  (countable, idiomatic, by extension) A long time.
noun:  (uncountable) A bright blue, sweet-flavored ice cream that is popular in the Midwestern U.S. and is a component of Superman ice cream.

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