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What is "red-blooded"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
red-blooded
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
male
▪ Wish I'd met her ten, twenty years ago when I could still pass as a red-blooded male.
▪ How could any red-blooded male ignore the message the actress was sending so blatantly? she wondered despairingly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ How could any red-blooded male ignore the message the actress was sending so blatantly? she wondered despairingly.
▪ Neil Kinnock is a red-blooded, hard-drinking, fist-swinging family-man.
▪ Rory's true feelings about the matter were complex but red-blooded.
▪ The cliche is never more true than in the black and white morality of the technicolour red-blooded Western movie.
▪ Wish I'd met her ten, twenty years ago when I could still pass as a red-blooded male.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
red-blooded

"having red blood," 1802, from red (adj.1) + blood (n.). Figurative meaning "vigorous, spirited" is recorded from 1877.

Wiktionary
red-blooded

a. Exhibiting healthy vigor or spirit; hearty.

WordNet
red-blooded

adj. endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health; "a hearty glow of health" [syn: hearty, full-blooded, lusty]

Usage examples of "red-blooded".

How many people are killed every year by speedsters like this red-blooded, young girl.

We circularized the town—putting up posters in recreation centers in an appeal to red-blooded Americans, made stump speeches, and "impressed" soldiers found in the local hot spots.

The constant battle of wits and senses against the many deadly foes that lurked by day and by night along the pathway of the wary and the unwary appealed to the spirit of adventure which breathes strong in the heart of every red-blooded son of primordial Adam.

And what red-blooded American boy will look twice at a Geography whiz with scabs on her knees, when he could have a Sweater Girl?