genuine article

noun

Definitions

  1. An authentic thing, as opposed to an imitation.

    • “Coffee” might be largely sawdust, or wheat, beans, beets, peas, and dandelion seeds, scorched black and ground to resemble the genuine article.
    • "Bob was a dynamo, a force of nature. Bob was the genuine article," Joshua Goldbard said.
    • “I think he's an extraordinary man [Dario Amodei], the real genuine article,” he [Michael Moritz] tells me.
  2. The bomb

    The bomb; the shit.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for genuine article. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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