blue flu
noun
absenteeism among police officers or firefighters who claim to be ill but are in fact absent to support union contract demands or negotiations: so called from the officers' blue uniforms.
Origin of blue flu
First recorded in 1965–70
Words nearby blue flu
blue duck,
blue ensign,
blue false indigo,
blue flag,
blue flash,
blue flu,
blue fox,
blue funk,
blue funk, in a,
blue gas,
blue giant