Meaning

3 senses
  1. (idiomatic, informal)Someone who is easily fooled, victimized, or ridiculed.

  2. (idiomatic, informal)Someone who is eccentric, nonconformist, or otherwise peculiar.

  3. (idiomatic, informal)A person, thing, or situation which is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or urgent.

Examples

68 sentences
  1. Tom lived in a one-bedroom apartment.

    Том жив у двокімнатній квартирі.

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  2. She is likely to live to one hundred.

    Дуже ймовірно, що вона доживе до ста років.

    deSie wird wahrscheinlich hundert Jahre alt werden.

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  3. Tom lives one floor below me.

    ruТом живёт этажом ниже.

    deTom wohnt eine Etage unter mir.

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  4. He has lived here for one week.

    ruОн живёт здесь уже неделю.

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  5. Tom lives just one floor above Mary.

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Origin

Possibly an allusion to hooking a particularly lively fish on a fishing line.

Possibly an allusion to hooking a particularly lively fish on a fishing line.

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Forms

plural: live ones
Singularlive one
Plurallive ones

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
someone easily fooled or victimized:chump
someone who is eccentric or peculiar:head case
thing, or situation which is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or urgent:real McCoy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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