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English
Adjective
red-blooded (not comparable)
- (figuratively) Having a healthy vigor and spirit.
- Synonyms: hearty, robust, vigorous, macho, red-blood
2021 July 20, Robinson Meyer, “Carbon Tax, Beloved Policy to Fix Climate Change, Is Dead at 47”, in The Atlantic:The carbon tax won acclaim from self-described socialists and red-blooded libertarians, Democratic senators and Republican secretaries of state, Elon Musk and Janet Yellen.
- (figuratively) Having an active sex drive; lustful.
- Synonyms: virile, concupiscent
2017 November 11, Patrick Lion, “Sex worker who slept with more than 10,000 men answers questions women never dare to ask”, in The Mirror:As one of my clients put it, 'I love my wife so much I'm so in love with her but we don't have sex, I only have sex three times a year and I'm a red blooded man I can't deal with that'.
2025 June 23, Caroline Kitchener, “The MTV Reality Star in Trump’s Cabinet Who Wants You to Have More Kids”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:A red-blooded American male who once scored with reality TV stars, he is now a devoted dad with his own chicken coop and beehives, publicly pledging his commitment to his wife and their old Chrysler minivan.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, blooded.
2019 December 4, David Pagel, “Review: A photographer’s portraits of Iceland, in all of its epic, impossible beauty”, in Los Angeles Times:In five tightly cropped close-ups, terra firma appears to be roiling, more like the surface of a stormy sea than anything you’d want to build a house on. Melted ice cream comes to mind, as does the flesh of red-blooded animals.
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- In the figurative sense, typically used to describe a heterosexual man.
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