real-time, adv.
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Oct 27 19:57:20 UTC 2011
The Mayor of Atlanta tells CNN that during the "Occupy Atlanta"
demonstrations he was "getting reports real-time."
(Contrast "big-time.")
This seems to mean 'continually from a live source; moment-by-moment.'
JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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