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Meaning of redskirt | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

An unimportant or expendable female character, especially one introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril faced by important characters.

rare, slang

Examples

“Wasn't there that episode where the aliens turned everyone into little blocks of styrofoam, and one of the aliens turned a redskirt and a redshirt into cubes and crumbled one of them? And then Scotty got really drunk. I seem to recall that the redskirt bought it that time.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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