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We found 7 dictionaries that define the word redshirted:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. redshirted: Merriam-Webster
  2. Redshirted, redshirted: Wordnik
  3. redshirted: Wiktionary
  4. redshirted: Dictionary.com
  5. Redshirted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. redshirted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. redshirted: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See redshirt as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Redshirt)

noun:  (now historical) A supporter of the Italian nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi, especially a member of his thousand-man army which conquered Sicily.
noun:  (now chiefly historical) A revolutionary or anarchist.
noun:  (US, sports) A college athlete who spends a year not participating in official athletic activities, but does not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
noun:  (fiction, science fiction, fandom slang) An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.
noun:  (US, military) A person responsible for loading and unloading weapons, artillery, and equipment from aircraft.
verb:  (US, collegiate sports) To place an athlete in a status wherein the athlete will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities, but will not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
verb:  (US, collegiate sports) To take on a status wherein one will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities.
verb:  (US) To hold a child out of kindergarten for one year in the hope that the child will do better academically and socially.
noun:  Alternative form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”). [A member of the UDD (National United Front for Democracy) who supported Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (and subsequent Thaksin-affiliated parties) in the conflict in Thailand after the 2006 coup d'etat.]
noun:  Alternative form of Red Shirt [A member of the UDD (National United Front for Democracy) who supported Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (and subsequent Thaksin-affiliated parties) in the conflict in Thailand after the 2006 coup d'etat.]
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