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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

real live en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic, not-comparable) Authentic and indisputably present.
    • You actually put a real live gay person on the cover of your magazine! Whatever will be next? 2002, Out, volume 10, number 7, page 12:
    • Wow! A real live parrot!
    • Julia Claire owns a real live computer, and she offered to pull up some of my old blog posts and print them out for Martha. 2013, Sophie Hudson, A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet, page 164:
    • face-to-face with a real live gangster