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noun
A supporter of the Italian nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi, especially a member of his thousand-man army which conquered Sicily.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
A revolutionary or anarchist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
A college athlete who spends a year not participating in official athletic activities, but does not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: fiction, lifestyle, literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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noun
A person responsible for loading and unloading weapons, artillery, and equipment from aircraft.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Alternative form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Alternative form of Red Shirt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
To place an athlete in a status wherein the athlete will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities, but will not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Qualifier: collegiate sports
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verb
To take on a status wherein one will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Qualifier: collegiate sports
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verb
To hold a child out of kindergarten for one year in the hope that the child will do better academically and socially.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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History
Calque of Italian camicia rossa, equivalent to red + shirt. In later senses with reference to the uniforms or outfits worn by such people. The fandom slang sense emerged from the tendency of red-uniformed Starfleet officers to die in episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series.
