TARDIS blue

English

Etymology

From the colour of the TARDIS, a time machine and spacecraft shaped like a police box, from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Noun

TARDIS blue (uncountable)

1. The dark blue colour of a traditional police box.

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   • 2014, Michele Zurlo, Kiss Me by Moonlight‎^[1], Omnific Publishing, →ISBN:

     He wore a black button-down shirt and gray slacks. […] On his feet, he wore his lucky shoes. The TARDIS blue was the only real color on him.

Adjective

TARDIS blue (not comparable)

1. Of this dark blue colour.
   • 2014, Emma Gray, Groupies, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 39:

     She wears a tacky T.A.R.D.I.S blue cardigan, buttoned to the max, over khaki slacks.

   • 2015, Lucia Moroşanu, When Impossible Events Occur‎^[2], →ISBN:

     She took a long drag and put the cigarette out in the blue ashtray on the living room table. Alex had given it to her two months after they first met. It was an odd, almost circular shape, but it was TARDIS blue and he thought Die might like it.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:TARDIS blue.

Anagrams

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