Usually means: Misleading clue diverting from truth.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. red herring: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. red herring: Merriam-Webster
  3. red herring: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. red herring: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. red herring: Collins English Dictionary
  6. red herring: Vocabulary.com
  7. red-herring, red herring: Wordnik
  8. red herring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. red herring: Wiktionary
  10. red herring: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. red herring: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. red herring: Dictionary.com
  13. red herring: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Red Herring (magazine), Red herring (disambiguation), Red herring (fallacy), Red herring (fish), Red herring (idiom), Red herring (logical fallacy), Red herring (narrative), Red herring (plot device), Red herring: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. red herring: Rhymezone
  16. Red Herring: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. red herring: FreeDictionary.org
  18. red herring: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Red Herring: The Word Detective
  20. red herring: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Red herring: World Wide Words

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. red herring: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Red herring: bizterms.net
  7. Red Herring: Investopedia
  8. Red Herring: Securities Terminology
  9. red herring: Financial dictionary
  10. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  12. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. red herring: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. red herring: A Word A Day
  3. red herring: Idioms
  4. red herring: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (red herring)

noun:  A herring that is cured in smoke and brine strong enough to turn the flesh red; a typeof kipper.
noun:  (figuratively) A clue, information, argument, etc. that is or is intended to be misleading, diverting attention from the real answer or issue.
noun:  (finance) A red herring prospectus.
noun:  (slang, archaic) A soldier.

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