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red

/ɹɛd/

noun 22
adjective 15
exclamation 1
forms 4
phrases 20

noun22

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the color of blood, and of strawberries
- Red can be seen as hot or angry.
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Red wine.
- A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / in our Italian restaurant. — 1977
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A Communist.
- The 5th “Red” army corps is also making for Wuting while the 9th “Red” army corps is preparing bamboo rafts for crossing the Kin Sha Kiang (River) northwards to invade south-western Szechuan. — 1935
A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
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(informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
- Stopping on the red, you're going on the green / Cause tonight will be like nothing you've ever seen / And you're barreling down the boulevard / You're looking for the heart of Saturday night — 1974
Something, or a part of a thing, which is red.
A supporter of a sports team who wears red as part of their kit.
One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
A red dye or pigment.
A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of red pigment.
(informal) A red variety of an animal, such as a red kangaroo or a red squirrel.
(UK, informal) A redshank.
(informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.
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The player moving the red pieces.
- When the Chief Arbiter announces the start of the game, the player taking Black will press the clock, and Red would make his move before pressing the clock. — 2018
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(slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
- What in the world ever became of sweet Jane? / She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same / Livin' on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine — 1970
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Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.
- No other country has a brewing tradition as richly diverse as that of Belgium, with beers ranging from pleasant pale lagers to wild, winelike Flemish reds and lambics. — 2016
(offensive) An American Indian.
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(slang) Tomato ketchup.
- I squeeze some red out over my chips and feel guilty. Nothing is as English as Heinz ketchup in the sauce game, except perhaps HP. — 2016
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(US, informal) Chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
- Houston visited a home in an early pioneer settlement where he was offered a bowl of red. Houston eagerly took his first large spoonful. His eyes watering, he spat out his bite […] — 1982
One of the three color charges for quarks.
(UK, informal) Red lemonade
Acronym of reverse electrodialysis.

adjective15

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Of a red hue.
- The girl wore a red skirt.
- He was wearing a red jacket.
red (hair color).
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Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
- Her hair had red highlights.
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Having a redder hue than usual due to embarrassment, anger, sunburn, etc.; flushed.
- [T]he sun was shining on a happy crowd. It shone on white hats and red faces. It shone on ice lollies and melted them. — 1982
Communist.
Related to socialist or leftist politics.
Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red.
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Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
- "Only Nixon could go to China" was the refrain of conventional wisdom during Richard Nixon’s 1972 official visit to Mao Tse-tung’s regime. Nixon’s anti-communist credentials, however dubious, provided useful camouflage as he opened diplomatic relations with Red China and made breathtaking concessions that an undisguised liberal couldn’t get away with. https://web.archive.org/web/20061114093022/http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1998/vo14no16/vo14no16_dragon.htm
(US) The U.S. Republican Party.
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Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
- I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.
Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
(offensive, old-fashioned) Native American.
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(offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
- All my friends are Indians / All my friends are brown and red — 1994
Having a brown color.
Of a red color charge.

exclamation1

Used to indicate that the speaker wishes current sexual activity to stop immediately.

forms

Reds · reds · redder · reddest

Phrases with red

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