"live one" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly an allusion to hooking a particularly lively fish on a fishing line.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "live ones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "live one (plural live ones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "43 43 15",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 7, Bill Virgin, “In 2009, it's all about green”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA, retrieved 2009-02-03:",
          "text": "There's green as in greenhorn, meaning inexperienced and gullible. Those with a pitch to sell are going to spot a live one—in this case government with dollars practically falling out of its pockets—coming from miles away.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who is easily fooled, victimized, or ridiculed."
      ],
      "id": "en-live_one-en-noun-TtnJTASn",
      "links": [
        [
          "fool",
          "fool"
        ],
        [
          "victim",
          "victim"
        ],
        [
          "ridicule",
          "ridicule"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) Someone who is easily fooled, victimized, or ridiculed."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 6",
          "sense": "someone easily fooled or victimized",
          "word": "chump"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "43 43 15",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 September 13, Charles Placker, “Ministry of happiness denies the crucifixion”, in The Victoria Advocate, Texas, USA, retrieved 2009-02-03, page 3D:",
          "text": "They've got a live one in the crowd, he's scary, he looks dangerous, demon possessed, he doesn't know who he is, he speaks in strange voices.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 September 28, Polly Curtis, “HE Diary: Howells has landed”, in guardian.co.uk, retrieved 2009-02-03:",
          "text": "We've got a live one. Kim Howells burst on to the scene last week with his first foray into university politics as higher education minister. The man best known for labelling the Turner Prize \"conceptual bullshit\" was not sounding very on-message. In a departure from his prepared speech on the launch of an NUS information campaign for would-be students, Howells started, well, rambling.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who is eccentric, nonconformist, or otherwise peculiar."
      ],
      "id": "en-live_one-en-noun-gsOQ4ACt",
      "links": [
        [
          "eccentric",
          "eccentric"
        ],
        [
          "nonconformist",
          "nonconformist"
        ],
        [
          "peculiar",
          "peculiar"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) Someone who is eccentric, nonconformist, or otherwise peculiar."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "28 63 9",
          "sense": "someone who is eccentric or peculiar",
          "word": "head case"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 4 64",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 2 67",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 2 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 43 15",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Tom Lawrence, \"Area DUI crack down reduces arrests,\" Black Hills Pioneer (South Dakota, USA), 2 Jan. (retrieved 3 Feb. 2009)",
          "text": "\"We got a live one here,\" he said as he speeds up in pursuit of a car."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person, thing, or situation which is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or urgent."
      ],
      "id": "en-live_one-en-noun-Ysu-4b08",
      "links": [
        [
          "interesting",
          "interesting"
        ],
        [
          "noteworthy",
          "noteworthy"
        ],
        [
          "urgent",
          "urgent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) A person, thing, or situation which is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or urgent."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 94",
          "sense": "thing, or situation which is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or urgent",
          "tags": [
            "person"
          ],
          "word": "real McCoy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlaɪv wʌn/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "dupe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "mark"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "patsy"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "sucker"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "kook"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "nut"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "oddball"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "weirdo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "strange person"
    }
  ],
  "word": "live one"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly an allusion to hooking a particularly lively fish on a fishing line.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "live ones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "live one (plural live ones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 7, Bill Virgin, “In 2009, it's all about green”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA, retrieved 2009-02-03:",
          "text": "There's green as in greenhorn, meaning inexperienced and gullible. Those with a pitch to sell are going to spot a live one—in this case government with dollars practically falling out of its pockets—coming from miles away.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who is easily fooled, victimized, or ridiculed."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fool",
          "fool"
        ],
        [
          "victim",
          "victim"
        ],
        [
          "ridicule",
          "ridicule"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) Someone who is easily fooled, victimized, or ridiculed."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 September 13, Charles Placker, “Ministry of happiness denies the crucifixion”, in The Victoria Advocate, Texas, USA, retrieved 2009-02-03, page 3D:",
          "text": "They've got a live one in the crowd, he's scary, he looks dangerous, demon possessed, he doesn't know who he is, he speaks in strange voices.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 September 28, Polly Curtis, “HE Diary: Howells has landed”, in guardian.co.uk, retrieved 2009-02-03:",
          "text": "We've got a live one. Kim Howells burst on to the scene last week with his first foray into university politics as higher education minister. The man best known for labelling the Turner Prize \"conceptual bullshit\" was not sounding very on-message. In a departure from his prepared speech on the launch of an NUS information campaign for would-be students, Howells started, well, rambling.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who is eccentric, nonconformist, or otherwise peculiar."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eccentric",
          "eccentric"
        ],
        [
          "nonconformist",
          "nonconformist"
        ],
        [
          "peculiar",
          "peculiar"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) Someone who is eccentric, nonconformist, or otherwise peculiar."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Tom Lawrence, \"Area DUI crack down reduces arrests,\" Black Hills Pioneer (South Dakota, USA), 2 Jan. (retrieved 3 Feb. 2009)",
          "text": "\"We got a live one here,\" he said as he speeds up in pursuit of a car."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person, thing, or situation which is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or urgent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "interesting",
          "interesting"
        ],
        [
          "noteworthy",
          "noteworthy"
        ],
        [
          "urgent",
          "urgent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) A person, thing, or situation which is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or urgent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlaɪv wʌn/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "someone easily fooled or victimized",
      "word": "chump"
    },
    {
      "word": "dupe"
    },
    {
      "word": "mark"
    },
    {
      "word": "patsy"
    },
    {
      "word": "sucker"
    },
    {
      "sense": "someone who is eccentric or peculiar",
      "word": "head case"
    },
    {
      "word": "kook"
    },
    {
      "word": "nut"
    },
    {
      "word": "oddball"
    },
    {
      "word": "weirdo"
    },
    {
      "word": "strange person"
    },
    {
      "sense": "thing, or situation which is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or urgent",
      "tags": [
        "person"
      ],
      "word": "real McCoy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "live one"
}