Meaning of red shirt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A climbing route on Mount Yamnuska in the Canadian Rockies.
3. A follower of Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian revolutionary in the later nineteenth century.
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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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5. Alternative letter-case form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”).
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6. Alternative letter-case form of Red Shirt (“follower of Garibaldi”).
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7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, shirt.

Examples

“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.”

“In 1848, both Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement and Giuseppe Garibaldis Red Shirts had sought a united republican Italy achieved through direct popular action, but they had failed.”

“His narrative suggests that psychological factors shaped his decision to become a Red Shirt. Although his Republican father was murdered by Democrats in 1870, Fleming recalled being part of a Red Shirt group that killed the man in 1876.”

“Earlier scholarship tried to maintain a distinction between the violence of the Ku Klux Klan and the ostensibly peaceful activities of the Red Shirts, but more recent scholarship has concluded that this was a distinction without a difference.”

“It is likely that some of the younger men who had been too young to participate in the Civil War may have seen the Red Shirt companies as their opportunity to share in "the glory of battle" and were happy to join their fathers and older brothers.”

“This strong dilemma is also a fun one, and works particularly well against players who like to use the controversial "Red Shirt" tactic of sending down small away teams to attempt dilemmas.”

“This is a question about responsibility -- Did Michael send his partner (AKA Red Shirt) into the fire zone SPECIFICALLY to be killed? He was the one who suggested to Operations that they set up a rescue attempt -- TO FAIL.”

“Red Shirts are characters with only a little more personality than Random Grunts, but they are expendable, and you can expect them to get killed.”

“The Red Shirts are 'Ordies', or ordnance handlers.”

“The red lights of the Red Shirts joined the probing.”

“The Red Shirts were the serious ones: they loaded and armed the weapons on the aircraft.”

“The accident occurred on the second pitch of the Red Shirt Route on Mount Yamnuska.”

“Later that summer Lofthouse and Greenwood teamed up with Heinz Kahl to climb the quintessential Yamnuska classic — Red Shirt.”

“In this section, several difficult climbs interweave with the original Red Shirt route established in 1962.”

“Trekkers knew that if a "red shirt" — a non-regular cast member garbed in a red Starfleet tunic — was assigned to a landing party with Captain Kirk, the odds were very much against him or her returning from that mission. "Red shirts" were the expendable members of the crew, and viewers were never really surprised if the poor innocents were snuffed by the episode's end.”

“But Howie was only a pawn in this war, a foot soldier, a red shirt.”

“He, however, was nothing more than another red shirt. Michael still tried to imagine what was running through that kid's mind as he charged head long into the mob, his shouts of glory quickly turning to screams of terror as they ripped him apart.”

“Red shirts deal with weapons and crash and salvage operations.”

“Gervais was a red shirt, a member of the night ordnance crew, who wore red for easy visual identification of ordnance handlers.”

“As I exited the COD, there was a “red shirt” with GM stenciled in big black letters on the front and back of his shirt there to greet me, loan me a set of Mickey Mouse Ears and lend a hand with my gear.”

“Well, it was not too easy today, because the red shirts were staging a big rally in Bangkok this weekend.”

“During the rule of yellow shirts the Thai stance towards the Preah Vihear temple was more nationalist, while the red shirts, whose leaders enjoyed close ties with Camboida's leaders, were also the initiators of cooperative mechanisms and were developing warm ties with Cambodia.”

“As he got near the MBK center at Siam, he noticed about a dozen red shirt guards standing outside of a number of sandbags and a wooden fence area which appeeared to be an entrance.”

“Are our Garibaldians, the red shirts, there?”

“The “red shirts” led by Guiseppe Garibaldi had already freed Sicily.”

“In 1860, he and his 1,000 'red shirts' took Sicily.”

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