real mccoy

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   informal usage attributing authenticity

   Synonymsreal thingreal stuff

   Broaderauthenticity

Questions about real mccoy

What does real mccoy mean?

real mccoy means "informal usage attributing authenticity".

What is another word for real mccoy?

Close synonyms include real thing, real stuff. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is real mccoy a common word?

real mccoy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.