Green’s Dictionary of Slang

all alivo adj.

alert, active.

1818		‘A. Burton’ Adventures of Johnny Newcome III 162: A short excursion Suggested for a day’s diversion. — ‘My Boy, ’twill make you all alive!’.
1825		T. Creevey letter 2 June in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 209: There are all kinds of reports about the state of the King's health. [...] In the mean time Our York is all alive O! He dined at Sefton's this day week as gay as a lark.
1833		T. Creevey letter 4 July in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 368: [S]he said, ‘Lord Essex, have you ordered the fire to be lighted in the next room?’ and upon his saying, ‘No,’ she said, ‘Then I shall light it myself,’ and accordingly it was all alive O when we went to coffee.
1861		(con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor I 65/1: Ha-a-ansome cod! best in the market! All alive! alive! alive O!
1879		‘’Arry on the River’ in Punch 9 Aug. 57/1: We kept that ’ere pub all-alive-oh, I tell yer, with song and with chorus.
1923		J. Manchon Le Slang.