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real live

real live adjective: authentic and indisputably present.

Adjective

real live (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) Authentic and indisputably present.
    • face-to-face with a real live gangster
    • Wow! A real live parrot!

Examples of real live in a sentence

  • You actually put a real live gay person on the cover of your magazine!2002, Out, volume 10, number 7, page 12:
  • 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:

Questions about real live

What does real live mean?
Real live means authentic and indisputably present.
How do you use real live in a sentence?
You actually put a real live gay person on the cover of your magazine!
What part of speech is real live?
Real live is an adjective.

Words near real live in the dictionary

  1. real ledger
  2. real ledgers
  3. real life
  4. real line
  5. real lines
  6. real live
  7. real lives
  8. real Macoy
  9. real McCoy
  10. real McKoy
  11. real men don't eat quiche

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