Usually means: Fear of communism in America.
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  1. red scare: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. red scare: Vocabulary.com
  3. red scare: Wiktionary
  4. Red Scare: Dictionary.com
  5. Red Scare, Red scare, The Red Scare: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. red scare: Rhymezone
  7. red scare: FreeDictionary.org
  8. red scare: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. red scare: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Red Scare, The Red Scare: Legal dictionary

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  1. Red Scare: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (red scare)

noun:  Fearmongering on the topic of a rise in communism that will threaten Western nations, especially from Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc in the past, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc. but also from any leftist movement.

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