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Meaning of red-shirt

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

red-shirt

noun

Definitions

  1. A member of the UDD (National United Front for Democracy), supporters of Prime Minister Shinawatra, (and subsequently Abhisit Vejajiva) in the conflict in Thailand after the 2006 coup d'etat.

  2. A follower of Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian revolutionary in the later nineteenth century.

  3. A member of a paramilitary arm of the Democratic party in Mississippi and South Carolina at the end of Reconstruction.

noun

Definitions

  1. A minor character or member of a group, especially one who is expendable or likely to be killed.

  2. A sailor whose job it is to handle ordinance on an aircraft carrier.