live one
US slang
noun
1A racehorse which is worth betting on (now rare ).
2A potential customer, victim, or participant; especially a gullible person, a dupe.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Haliburton (1796–1865), politician and writer.
- corporatist
- corporative
- corporativism
- corporativist
- corporatization
- corporatize
- corporatocracy
- corporator
- corporeal
- corporeality
- corporeally
- corporeity
- corposant
- corps
- corps de ballet
- corps d'elite
- corpse
- corpse candle
- corpse-like
- corpse pose
- corpsman
- Corps of Commissionaires
- corpulence
- corpulency
- corpulent