Usually means: Caught in the act directly.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word red-handed:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. red-handed: Merriam-Webster
  2. red-handed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. red-handed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. red-handed, red-handed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. red-handed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Red-Handed, red-handed: Wordnik
  7. red-handed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. red-handed: Wiktionary
  9. red-handed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. red-handed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. red-handed: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. red-handed: Dictionary.com
  13. red-handed: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Red-Handed, Red-handed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Red-handed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. red-handed: Rhymezone
  17. Red-handed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Red-handed: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. red-handed: FreeDictionary.org
  20. red-handed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. red-handed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (red-handed)

adjective:  (idiomatic) Showing clear evidence of guilt; in the act of wrongdoing.
adjective:  Deadly, bloody.
adjective:  (informal) With hands that are red from blood.

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