popular nuance of "regular"

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED seems not to recognize this very common, informal American usage:

2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robot_Chicken&oldid=126171215 : "Robot Chicken...was a regular chicken who was run over by a car...and was brought back to life in cyborg form."

I.e., "ordinary; of the familiar sort."

Sense 6.a. comes close; but not, I think, close enough. I'm quite sure I've used this sense from at least when I started school in the mid '50s.

JL


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