real gone
Real gone was mid-century American hipster and jazz slang for someone or something so cool, so thrillingly unhinged, that they've left ordinary reality behind.
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Real gone was mid-century American hipster and jazz slang for someone or something so cool, so thrillingly unhinged, that they've left ordinary reality behind. If a musician was playing real gone, they were in a state of ecstatic improvisation. The phrase captures the beat-generation romance with freedom, spontaneity, and living outside the straight world's lane.
That trumpet solo was real gone — nobody in the club could breathe for a full minute.
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(US, slang) outrageously cool, wild and carefree.
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