Cryptic crossword clue
Pencil case comes in clear, red, and blue 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PURPLE

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What does PURPLE mean?

PURPLE noun
  1. A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.
  2. (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
  3. Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
  4. (by extension) Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings.
  5. Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
  6. The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
  7. Purpura.
  8. Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
  9. Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
  10. A cardinalate.
PURPLE verb
  1. To turn purple in colour.
  2. To dye purple.
  3. To clothe in purple.
PURPLE adjective
  1. Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue.
  2. Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support, as in purple state, purple city.
  3. (in Netherlands and Belgium) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
  4. Imperial; regal.
  5. Blood-red; bloody.
  6. (of language) Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
  7. (of a sector, lap, etc.) Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
PURPLE noun
  1. A recreational drug based on cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community in the southern United States.

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