Reds

Definitions

1. Synonym of Communist Party in various contexts.
   informal, plural, plural-only
2. Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly
   historical, informal, plural, plural-only
3. The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore red.
   historical, informal, plural, plural-only
4. Cincinnati Reds.
   informal, plural, plural-only
5. Liverpool FC.
   informal, plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“Gibbon's successors had alternative suggestions, the most persistent of which has been that the Blues were supporters of religious orthodoxy and the Greens of Monophysitism. According to this view⟳, the emperor Anastasius, whose Monophysitism was notorious, should have⟳ been a Green, though contemporary evidence makes him a Red.”

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