Usually means: Provocation, often leading to conflict.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. red rag: Merriam-Webster
  2. red rag: Collins English Dictionary
  3. red rag: Wiktionary
  4. red rag: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. red rag: Dictionary.com
  6. Red Rag (magazine), Red Rag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Red Rag: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. red rag: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. red rag: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Red rag: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (red rag)

▸ noun:  (figurative) Something that will enrage another particular person.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, slang, derogatory) A person's tongue.

Similar:
red rag to a bull, red flag, enragement, outrage, incendiary, blood in one's eye, red-hot poker, trigger, indignatio, rage, more...

Opposite:
white flag, peace offering, symbol of surrender

Phrases:
a red rag to a bull, more...

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Similar:
red rag to a bull, red flag, enragement, outrage, incendiary, blood in one's eye, red-hot poker, trigger, indignatio, rage, more...

Opposite:
white flag, peace offering, symbol of surrender

Phrases:
a red rag to a bull, more...



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