Redshirt

Redshirt

Red shirt or Redshirt may refer to:

Fiction

* Redshirt (character), a stock 'cannon fodder' character in fiction, particularly in "Star Trek: The Original Series".
*"Redshirts" (film) ("Camicie rosse"), a 1952 film directed by Francesco Rosi.

Groups and Movements

* Redshirts (Italy), volunteer followers of Giuseppe Garibaldi in southern Italy during his Expedition of the Thousand.
* Red Shirts (Southern United States), militant white Southern opponents of blacks, carpetbaggers, and United States troops during and after reconstruction.
* Red Shirts (Mexico), an anti-Catholic paramilitary organization in Mexico in the 1930's.
* Red Shirts ("Surkh Posh"), another name for the Khudai Khidmatgar, a Pashtun movement against the British in the North West Frontier Province, and its successor, the Awami National Party of that region in Pakistan.
* Red Shirts, another name for Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African shack dwellers' movement.

Individuals

* Delphine Red Shirt, an Oglala Lakota Sioux writer.
* Kuilix, a Pend d'Oreilles woman whose name meant "Red Shirt" or "Red One".

Other

* Redshirt (college sports), a term referring to delaying a college athlete's participation in order to lengthen eligibility.
* Red Shirt, South Dakota, a small Lakota village in South Dakota, United States.
* Red Shirt School of Photography, a trend pioneered by National Geographic photographers to have subjects wear overly colourful clothes.
* RedShirt, an encryption scheme used in games by Introversion Software.

ee also

* Red coat


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  • redshirt — (v.) to withdraw (a player) from the varsity team to add a year to his or her eligibility, 1955, in reference to the red shirts worn by athletes on the scrimmage squad …   Etymology dictionary

  • redshirt — ☆ redshirt [red′shʉrt΄ ] vt. [from the traditional red shirts worn by the scrimmage team, with whom such players may continue to practice] Slang to withdraw (a player) from a varsity team for a year so that the player will be eligible for… …   English World dictionary

  • Redshirt — Als Redshirts (englisch, zu deutsch etwa Rothemden) werden, in Anlehnung an die US amerikanische Science Fiction Serie Star Trek, Figuren bezeichnet, die kurz nach ihrem Auftritt sterben.[1][2] Der Begriff wurde von Star Trek Fans gebildet.[3] In …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • redshirt — 1. noun /ɹɛd.ʃɜː(ɹ)t a) an athlete who spends a year not participating in official athletic activities, but does not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years Sensing danger, Captain Kirk decided to beam down to the surface… …   Wiktionary

  • redshirt — noun Etymology: from the red jersey commonly worn by such a player in practice scrimmages against the regulars Date: 1955 a college athlete who is kept out of varsity competition for a year in order to extend eligibility • redshirt verb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • redshirt — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : a member of an organization having a red shirt as a distinctive part of its dress or uniform; especially : a member of the revolutionary forces of Guiseppe Garibaldi II. noun Etymology: so called from the red jersey commonly… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Redshirt (college sports) — This article is about the sports term. For the academic term, see Redshirting (academic). Redshirt is a term used in American college athletics that refers to a delay or suspension of an athlete s participation in order to lengthen his or her… …   Wikipedia

  • Redshirt (character) — A redshirt is a stock character, used frequently in science fiction but also in other genres,Fact|date=September 2008 whose primary purpose is to die soon after being introduced, thus demonstrating the dangerous circumstances faced by the main… …   Wikipedia

  • redshirt — /red sherrt /, n. 1. a high school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. v.t. 2. to withdraw (an athlete) from varsity competition. [1950 55, Amer.; from the red shirts worn in… …   Universalium

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