red shirt
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Alternative form of redshirt (“expendable minor character”).
- Alternative form of redshirt (“sailor who handles ordnance”).
- Alternative letter-case form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”).
- Alternative letter-case form of Red Shirt (“follower of Garibaldi”).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, shirt.
- Alternative form of Red Shirt (“follower of Garibaldi”).
- Alternative form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”).
- A member of the UDD (National United Front for Democracy) who supported Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (and subsequent Thaksin-affiliated parties) in the conflict in Thailand after the 2006 coup d'etat.
- A follower of Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian revolutionary in the later nineteenth century.
- A member of a paramilitary arm of the Democratic party in Mississippi and South Carolina at the end of Reconstruction.
- Alternative form of redshirt (“expendable minor character”).
- Alternative form of redshirt (“sailor who handles ordinance”).
Proper noun
- A climbing route on Mount Yamnuska in the Canadian Rockies.
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