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red-blooded

[ red-bluhd-id ]

/ ˈrɛdˈblʌd ɪd /

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adjective

vigorous; virile.

Origin of red-blooded

First recorded in 1795–1805

SYNONYMS FOR red-blooded

robust, sturdy, lusty, hearty.

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OTHER WORDS FROM red-blooded

red-blood·ed·ness, noun

Words nearby red-blooded

red-back spider, red-backed shrike, red-bellied black snake, red-bellied turtle, red-billed quelea, red-blooded, red-dog, red-eye, red-eye gravy, red-eyed vireo, red-faced

Example sentences from the Web for red-blooded

Because, of course, red-blooded, white-skinned folks like Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski, and Adam Lanza pose no threat at all.

Why the Tea Party Is a Nativist Libertarian Movement |Peter Beinart |August 5, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
When Ball insisted he was speaking for “red-blooded Americans,” Morgan reminded him that Tsarnaev is an American citizen.

Trash Talk Returns as Pols, Pundits Point Fingers Over Boston Bombing |Howard Kurtz |April 24, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
I finally said, “You know, HIV is transmittable by good old-fashioned, red-blooded, hetero-normative, married sex.”

The Best of David Rakoff: Quotes, ‘This American Life,’ ‘The Daily Show,’ & More | |August 10, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Not exactly the way you meant to celebrate our annual tribute to red-blooded American masculinity, is it?

The Super Bowl May Harm Your Masculinity |Arthur De Vany |February 3, 2011 |DAILY BEAST

Sarah Palin wanted to make it a contest between high falutin', Ivy-League cosmopolitans and red-blooded, bear-hunting Americans.

Behind the Democratic Wipeout |Peter Beinart |November 4, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
A red-blooded woman like me to take to altruism, as some take to drugs!

Why Joan? |Eleanor Mercein Kelly
Let's have more of that kind of science story, that thrills every red-blooded American.

Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 |Various
They wouldn't flush the toilets in the guardhouse, and some red-blooded American soldiers had to go and pull the chain for them.

The Story of The American Legion |George Seay Wheat
Can a red-blooded man really love a girl who would marry for position?

The Trail of Conflict |Emilie Baker Loring
Every fibre in his body was hungering for a full meal of red-blooded meat, the sustaining flesh of deer or caribou.

The Kindred of the Wild |Charles G. D. Roberts

British Dictionary definitions for red-blooded

red-blooded

adjective

informal vigorous; virile

Derived forms of red-blooded

red-bloodedness, noun