red shirt
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.55 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
A follower of Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian revolutionary in the later nineteenth century.
noun
A member of a paramilitary arm of the Democratic party in Mississippi and South Carolina at the end of Reconstruction.
noun
Alternative form of redshirt (“expendable minor character”).
name
A climbing route on Mount Yamnuska in the Canadian Rockies.
noun
Alternative form of redshirt (“expendable minor character”).
Example Sentences
- "This need became clear with the emergence and conflicts between the Yellow Shirt movement (2005–13) and the Red Shirt movement (2007–present)."
- "The landslide victory of Peau Thai, sweeping 53% of the seat shares, was without a doubt due to the strength of its Red Shirt supporters."
- "At the time of the Bangkok floods in 2011, the store was a center for distributing goods donated through Red Shirt organizations."
- "The protests that led to the coup in 2014 were not as prolonged and damaging to the physical infrastructure as the Red Shirt protests of 2008 to 2012 had been."
- "Garibaldi started his career as a revolutionist in Nice where he had been born. Compelled to flee to South America, he became a noted crusader for the abstract principle of liberty. He returned to Italy for the revolution of 1848 and won renown as leader of the Red Shirts."
- "The Red Shirts lay there for about 15 minutes. All the while. Garibaldi was moving among his men, encouraging them, telling them to rest before the last push. At the same time, the Red Shirts could hear the Neapolitan officers telling their men to move forward and sweep the Italian patriots off their protecting ledge."
Usage
- American usage