Definition of "real-life" []

• Actually happening or having happened; not fictional: a documentary with footage of real-life police chases. (adjective)

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• "Mr Prodromou, who has been described as a real-life Crocodile Dundee, said he hoped to convince people to listen to him."
• "In the movies it has been hit by meteors and attacked by alien spaceships but now Los Angeles is preparing for what officials are describing as a real-life "Carmageddon.""
• "The story referred to real-life bellboy Johnny Roventini of Brooklyn, who was discovered in 1933 by adman Milton Biow at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan."