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RED MAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does red man mean?
• RED MAN (noun)
The noun RED MAN has 1 sense:
1. (slang) offensive term for Native Americans
Familiarity information: RED MAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(slang) offensive term for Native Americans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("red man" is a kind of...):
Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)
Domain usage:
depreciation; derogation; disparagement (a communication that belittles somebody or something)
argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))
Context examples
The country detective was a stout, puffy, red man, whose face was only redeemed from grossness by two extraordinarily bright eyes, almost hidden behind the heavy creases of cheek and brow.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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