red room
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
According to an urban legend, a room where people are tortured and murdered for an audience of viewers via the Dark Web, the viewers sometimes voting or bidding on the form of torture to be performed.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, room.
noun
noun
A purported kind of online forum where livestreams or videos of torture and murder can be viewed over the dark web.
noun
A room primarily used for sex, often a sex dungeon or a room used by a prostitute.
noun
The legislative chamber of the upper house in a bicameral parliament.
Example Sentences
- "The kids' party venue had three play spaces: the red room, the blue room and the yellow room."
- "When the huge figure, brought to bay, turned to face them he fought madly, desperately, bellowing forth his anguished defiance all the while, and it took the help of the guards of the red room to overpower him and carry him away in spite of the weakening tortures to which he had been subjected."
- "A repressed memory of torture in a red room could in principle be a phenomenally vivid image; what makes it unconscious in the Freudian sense is that it comes out in dreams, slips, fleeing from red rooms and the like rather than directly controlling behavior."
- ""There's a door hidden in that knotty pine wall over there that leads to his red room of pain and submission,” she jeered."
- "One day he is kidnapped by the police, imprisoned in the red room, and tortured."
- "This was the second night he had visited the red room, and no matter how much they beat and tortured him, Agent Hughes had no idea how Kwesi had vanished without a trace."