Blood

See also: blood and Blööd

English

Alternative forms

• blood

Noun

Blood (plural Bloods)

1. A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods, who typically wear red and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Crips.
   • 2009, DaShaun "Jiwe" Morris, War of the Bloods in My Veins:

     My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say or write words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining c's in the word.

Coordinate terms

• Crip

Proper noun

Blood

1. A surname.

Anagrams

• boldo

German Low German

Alternative forms

• Bloot
• Blitt (Low Prussian, rare)

Etymology

From Middle Low German blôt, from Old Saxon blōd, from Proto-West Germanic *blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą. Compare German Blut, Dutch and West Frisian bloed, English blood, Danish and Swedish blod.

Noun

Blood ? (no plural)

1. blood