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red-green

red-green adjective: pertaining to the shades of red and green, as in red-green colorblindness.

Adjective

red-green (comparative more red-green, superlative most red-green)

  1. Pertaining to the shades of red and green, as in red-green colorblindness.
  2. Synonym of ecosocialist.
    Synonyms:
    ecosocialist
  3. Relating to an alliance between socialists and Islamists.
    • Also the “red-green axis”—or, as French Prime Minister Manuel Valls calls it, “Islamo-leftism”—the partnership between Leftists and Islamists, is entrenched on campuses, as evidenced by myriad political resolutions passed by flagship organizations such as the Middle East Studies Association.2016, Mark Silinsky, Jihad and the West: Black Flag over Babylon, →ISBN, page 49
    • The core of the globalist coalition Houllebecq depicts in Submission subsumes the “Red-Green” coalition between the social-democratic left worldwide and the Muslim immigrants they have welcomed, what Houllebecq elsewhere calls “the unholy collusion between the far-left and radical Islam.”2021, Michael S. Cochin, Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom: The Pleasures of Decay in Houllebecq's Submission, →ISBN, page 160

Noun

red-green (plural red-greens)

  1. Synonym of ecosocialist.
    Synonyms:
    ecosocialist

Synonyms of red-green

Forms of red-green

Adjective
comparativemore red-green
superlativemost red-green
Noun
pluralred-greens

Origin of red-green

From red + green. * (politics): from red representing socialism and green representing environmentalism or Islamism

Phrases with red-green

Questions about red-green

What does red-green mean?
Red-green means pertaining to the shades of red and green, as in red-green colorblindness.
What part of speech is red-green?
Red-green can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near red-green in the dictionary

  1. red-fronted coot
  2. red-fronted tinkerbird
  3. red-fronted tinkerbirds
  4. red-gartered coot
  5. red-gartered coots
  6. red-green
  7. red-green color blindness
  8. red-green color blindnesses
  9. red-green colour blindness
  10. red-green-brown alliance
  11. red-green-brown alliances

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