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Red Shirt
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Noun
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.
en Yellow Shirt
en 2014 Multicultural Challenges and Sustainable Democracy in Europe and East Asia N. Kim - 1137403454 This need became clear with the emergence and conflicts between the Yellow Shirt movement (2005–13) and the Red Shirt movement (2007–present).
en 2014 Contemporary Socio-Cultural and Political Perspectives in Thailand Pranee Liamputtong 9400772440 The landslide victory of Peau Thai, sweeping 53% of the seat shares, was without a doubt due to the strength of its Red Shirt supporters.
en 2015 Unequal Thailand: Aspects of Income, Wealth and Power Pasuk Phongpaichit; Chris Baker 152 9814722006 At the time of the Bangkok floods in 2011, the store was a center for distributing goods donated through Red Shirt organizations.
en 2017 The King and the Making of Modern Thailand Antonio L. Rappa 1315411318 The protests that led to the coup in 2014 were not as prolonged and damaging to the physical infrastructure as the Red Shirt protests of 2008 to 2012 had been.
en historical A follower of Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian revolutionary in the later nineteenth century.
en 1945 Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs Jay Monaghan 133 0803282311 Garibaldi started his career as a revolutionist in Nice where he had been born. Compelled to flee to South America, he became a noted crusader for the abstract principle of liberty. He returned to Italy for the revolution of 1848 and won renown as leader of the Red Shirts.
en 1987 Giuseppe Garibaldi Herman J. Viola; Susan P. Viola 21 087754526X The Red Shirts lay there for about 15 minutes. All the while. Garibaldi was moving among his men, encouraging them, telling them to rest before the last push. At the same time, the Red Shirts could hear the Neapolitan officers telling their men to move forward and sweep the Italian patriots off their protecting ledge.
en 2002 A Brief History of Western Civilization Mark A. Kishlansky; Patrick J. Geary; Patricia O'Brien 0321097009 In 1848, both Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement and Giuseppe Garibaldis Red Shirts had sought a united republican Italy achieved through direct popular action, but they had failed.
en historical A member of a paramilitary arm of the Democratic party in Mississippi and South Carolina at the end of Reconstruction.
en 1998 Hurrah for Hampton! Edmund L. Drago 1557285411 His narrative suggests that psychological factors shaped his decision to become a Red Shirt. Although his Republican father was murdered by Democrats in 1870, Fleming recalled being part of a Red Shirt group that killed the man in 1876.
en 2006 Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era Richard Zuczek 522 0313013993 Earlier scholarship tried to maintain a distinction between the violence of the Ku Klux Klan and the ostensibly peaceful activities of the Red Shirts, but more recent scholarship has concluded that this was a distinction without a difference.
en 2010 The Bloody South Carolina Election of 1876 Jerry L. West 83 0786459840 It is likely that some of the younger men who had been too young to participate in the Civil War may have seen the Red Shirt companies as their opportunity to share in "the glory of battle" and were happy to join their fathers and older brothers.
en fiction en redshirt fiction expendable minor character.
en 1995 Star Trek Next Generation Customizable Card Game Decipher, Inc 1566862485 This strong dilemma is also a fun one, and works particularly well against players who like to use the controversial "Red Shirt" tactic of sending down small away teams to attempt dilemmas.
en October 1, 1997 Judy Williams Verdict-Red Shirt alt.fan.la-femme.nikita This is a question about responsibility -- Did Michael send his partner (AKA Red Shirt) into the fire zone SPECIFICALLY to be killed? He was the one who suggested to Operations that they set up a rescue attempt -- TO FAIL.
en 2009 David Perry on Game Design: A Brainstorming Toolbox David Perry; Rusel DeMaria 242 Red Shirts are characters with only a little more personality than Random Grunts, but they are expendable, and you can expect them to get killed.
en US _ navy en redshirt navy sailor who handles ordinance.
en 1997 Warfare at Sea Peter Darman 74 076030405X The Red Shirts are 'Ordies', or ordnance handlers.
en 1988 Supercarrier: an inside account of life aboard the world's most powerful ship, the USS John F. Kenedy George C. Wilson 0425109267 The red lights of the Red Shirts joined the probing.
en 2011 From Here to Caprock Max Gallimore 266 1456861433 The Red Shirts were the serious ones: they loaded and armed the weapons on the aircraft.
Proper noun
Red Shirt
A climbing route on Mount Yamnuska in the Canadian Rockies.
en 1999 Accidents in North American Mountaineering 4 1933056576 The accident occurred on the second pitch of the Red Shirt Route on Mount Yamnuska.
en 2003 The Yam: 50 Years of Climbing on Yamnuska Ben Gadd; Chic Scott; Dave Dornian 42 0921102976 Later that summer Lofthouse and Greenwood teamed up with Heinz Kahl to climb the quintessential Yamnuska classic — Red Shirt.
en 2006 Yamnuska Rock: The Crown Jewel of Canadian Rockies Traditional Climbing Andy Genereux 1894765745 In this section, several difficult climbs interweave with the original Red Shirt route established in 1962.
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Red Shirts (United States)
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