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red shirt
noun- a troublemaker US
- “What’s a red shirt?” “That’s an old expression for troublemaker. If you fell out of line too many times they issued you a red shirt. Then whenever there was trouble on the yard the gun bulls had orders to shoot the cons in the red shirts first.” — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 296, 1967
- a volunteer firefighter US, 1954
- — American Speech, p. 273, December 1954: Fire terms: additional words and definitions
- a college athlete who, because he did not play in his freshman year, may matriculate and play at the varsity level for a fifth year US, 1950
- — Howard B. Bonham, Football Lingo, p. 41, 1962
- — American Speech, Fall-Winter 1970
- in roller derby, a skater who engages in rough, “bad guy” tactics US
- If the red-shirt team wins, the skaters on that team must run off the track after the final whistle, partly to make them look cowardly but also for safety reasons, especially if the crowd starts to queue menacingly toward the track. — Keith Coppage, Roller Derby to Rollerjam, p. 127, 1999
- a professional wrestler who is regularly scripted to lose matches to advance the careers of other wrestlers US, 2002
- Sometimes known as fish, redshirts or PLs (professional losers). — rec.sports.pro-wrestling, 17 July 1990
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