redshirt (plural redshirts)
(US, collegiate sports) 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
redshirt (third-person singular simple present redshirts, present participle redshirting, simple past and past participle redshirted)
(US, collegiate sports) to place an athlete in a status wherein the athlete will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities, but will not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
(US, collegiate sports) To take on a status wherein one will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities.
(US) To hold a child out of kindergarten for one year in the hope that the child will do better academically and socially.
redshirt (plural redshirts)
(fiction, science fiction) An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.
redshirt (plural redshirts)
(US navy) A person responsible for loading and unloading weapons, artillery, and equipment from aircraft.
Redshirt (plural Redshirts)
Alternative form of Red Shirt
Source: Wiktionary
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
