real stuff

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   informal usage attributing authenticity

   Synonymsreal McCoyreal thing

   Broaderauthenticity

Questions about real stuff

What does real stuff mean?

real stuff means "informal usage attributing authenticity".

What is another word for real stuff?

Close synonyms include real McCoy, real thing. 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 stuff a common word?

real stuff 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.