red-blooded
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
red-blooded (not comparable)
- (figuratively) Having a healthy vigor and spirit.
- 2021 July 20, Robinson Meyer, “Carbon Tax, Beloved Policy to Fix Climate Change, Is Dead at 47”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- 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[2]:
- 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'.
- 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[3]:
- 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.
Usage notes[edit]
- In the figurative sense, typically used to describe a heterosexual man.