red shirt
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8.2
- noun
:
camiseta roja
- After the election, the red shirts celebrated their candidate's victory in the streets.
- red shirt protest
- wearing red shirts
- Most red shirts
Damn, man, three years and you, are you a red shirt?
- Damn, man, three years and you, are you a red shirt?
Examples
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We saw a few of the red shirts actually wearing the old uniforms and the the crew with speaking parts wear the new uniforms.
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At Paul Robeson High School on the city's South Side, two dozen teachers wearing red shirts chanted and carried signs saying "On Strike For Better Schools."
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The red shirt supporters gathered in the square to demand political change.
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During the protest, many red shirts chanted slogans in favor of democracy.
Synonyms
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9.9
A volunteer fighter who wore a red shirt with Garibaldi in 1800s Italy
Surface Forms
Morphology
While 'red' + 'shirt' easily yields the literal image of a red-colored shirt or someone wearing one, the MWE refers to a specific Thai political movement (supporters identified by wearing red shirts). That political, culture-specific meaning is not predictable from the constituents alone, so a B1 learner who knows the words but hasn't seen the term would not reliably infer this sense.
Etymology
The term red shirt in Thailand refers to people who wore the same red shirt at large protests to show they supported a particular political group. That's why it means 'a member or supporter of the Red Shirt movement'.