Reds

name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·1 syllable ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of red form-of, plural
  2. 2
    plural of Red form-of, plural
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of Communist Party in various contexts. informal, plural, plural-only
  2. 2
    Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly; The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore red. historical, informal, plural, plural-only

    "Gibbon's successors had alternative suggestions, the most persistent of which has been that the Blues were supporters of religious orthodoxy and the Greens of Monophysitism. According to this view, the emperor Anastasius, whose Monophysitism was notorious, should have been a Green, though contemporary evidence makes him a Red."

  3. 3
    Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly; Cincinnati Reds. informal, plural, plural-only
  4. 4
    Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly; Liverpool FC. informal, plural, plural-only

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communist partycommunist party in various contextsnatural governing partynatural governing party

Example

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"The odds are two-to-one that the Reds win."

Etymology

In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin russātī (“Reddish-Brown-Clads”) or factio russata (“the reddish-brown-clad faction”) and Byzantine Greek Ῥούσιοι (Rhoúsioi, “Reds”).

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