real live

English

Adjective

real live (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, colloquial) Authentic and indisputably present.
    Wow! A real live parrot!
    • 2002, Out (volume 10, number 7, page 12)
      You actually put a real live gay person on the cover of your magazine! Whatever will be next?
    • 2013, Sophie Hudson, A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet (page 164)
      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.
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