Phrase guide

Red Shirt

name · noun · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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name

Meaning 1

A climbing route on Mount Yamnuska in the Canadian Rockies.

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noun

Meaning 2

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.

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Meaning 3

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

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Usage: historical

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Meaning 4

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

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Usage: historical

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noun

Meaning 5

Alternative form of redshirt (“expendable minor character”).

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Usage: alt-of, alternative

Topics: fiction, literature, media, publishing

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noun

Meaning 6

Alternative form of redshirt (“sailor who handles ordinance”).

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Usage: US, alt-of, alternative

Topics: government, military, navy, politics, war

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Meaning 7

Alternative form of redshirt (“sailor who handles ordnance”).

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Usage: alt-of, alternative

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noun

Meaning 8

Alternative letter-case form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”).

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Usage: alt-of

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noun

Meaning 9

Alternative letter-case form of Red Shirt (“follower of Garibaldi”).

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Usage: alt-of

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noun

Meaning 10

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, shirt.

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