Red Shirt (English, noun)
expansion: Red Shirt (plural Red Shirts)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
glosses: A follower of Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian revolutionary in the later nineteenth century.
tags: historical
glosses: A member of a paramilitary arm of the Democratic party in Mississippi and South Carolina at the end of Reconstruction.
tags: historical
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Alternative form of redshirt (“expendable minor character”).
tags: alt-of
alternative
topics: government
military
navy
politics
war
glosses: Alternative form of redshirt (“sailor who handles ordinance”).
tags: US
alt-of
alternative
Forms:
form: Red Shirts
tags: plural
form: red shirt
tags: alternative
form: red-shirt
tags: alternative