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red-card

red-card verb: to show (a player) a red card, and dismiss them from the playing area; to send off.

Verb

red-card (third-person singular simple present red-cards, present participle red-carding, simple past and past participle red-carded)

  1. (transitive) To show (a player) a red card, and dismiss them from the playing area; to send off.
    • He was red-carded for striking the other player.

Forms of red-card

third-person singular presentred-cards
present participlered-carding
past participlered-carded
pastred-carded

Questions about red-card

What does red-card mean?
Red-card means to show (a player) a red card, and dismiss them from the playing area; to send off.
What part of speech is red-card?
Red-card is a verb.
What is the past tense of red-card?
The past tense of red-card is red-carded.

Words near red-card in the dictionary

  1. red-browed finches
  2. red-brown
  3. red-capped
  4. red-capped parrot
  5. red-capped parrots
  6. red-card
  7. red-carded
  8. red-carding
  9. red-cards
  10. red-carpet
  11. red-carpetful

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