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Definition of "for real" [for real]

  • Genuine, true or natural. (adjective)
  • Genuinely, truly. (adverb)

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Use "for real" in a sentence
  • "After forty pages of endless humping incredibly and frenching wildly, those are the last two lines: He says, “It was satisfying,” and she says, “Maybe for you”—which I think is such a bizarrely on-target predictor of the way that actual sex would really unfold for me almost eight years later, when I finally got humped for real in a wide variety of college dorm rooms."
  • "They backed off—not away, but off, cordoning themselves along the streets of Cold Water, witnesses to that which had not been seen for real in a century."
  • "UNMEE, like many other UN operations, was a substitute for real action, a crutch, and my talk of kicking away the crutch was not greeted enthusiastically at first."
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