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red room

red room noun: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, room.

Noun (1)

red room (plural red rooms)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, room.
    • The kids' party venue had three play spaces: the red room, the blue room and the yellow room.
  2. A torture chamber.
    • When the huge figure, brought to bay, turned to face them he fought madly, desperately, bellowing forth his anguished defiance all the while, and it took the help of the guards of the red room to overpower him and carry him away in spite of the weakening tortures to which he had been subjected.1910, James Paul Kelly, Prince Izon: A Romance of the Grand Canyon, page 329
    • A repressed memory of torture in a red room could in principle be a phenomenally vivid image; what makes it unconscious in the Freudian sense is that it comes out in dreams, slips, fleeing from red rooms and the like rather than directly controlling behavior.1998, Anthony O'Hear, Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Mind, page 27
  3. (Internet) A purported kind of online forum where livestreams or videos of torture and murder can be viewed over the dark web.
    • In fact some fake 'red rooms' on the Dark Web use scenes from mainstream horror films to deceive viewers into believing that they are attempting to access extreme content.2017, Tim Owen, Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed, New Perspectives on Cybercrime, page 244
    • In the red room, the people are cut into pieces and shown live on red room.2020, Sayam Pradhan, The Darkest Web: The Dark side of the internet
  4. A room primarily used for sex, often a sex dungeon or a room used by a prostitute.
    • He was chained up to the cross that hung against the wall of the 'red room'. It was actually a dungeon, with the aforementioned cross, complete with restraints, hanging from one of the padded red walls. On the floor was a fuck horse, various whips and paddles, and of course the swing.2018, Amanda Cummings, How I cuckolded My Husband
    • This, you did not expect to see. A full, complete, total 50 Shade of Grey red room with a St. Andrews cross, floggers, whips, cuffs, and loads of other things you've never seen, but are immediately interested in.2020, Spices of Lust, The eBook of Kinky Sex Ideas, page 110
  5. A VIP room.
    • If the red room is playing host to the high-rollers you would have to have a VIP card to get in.1999, Curtis Rayford, Black Jack, page 19
    • At night, resident DJs and international guests the caliber of Peter Kruder have everybody shakin' their booties in the well-preserved Art Deco hall or at the "red room" upstairs.2007, Fernando Gayesky, Elizabeth Gorman, Kristin Luna, MTV Spain
  6. The legislative chamber of the upper house in a bicameral parliament.
    • The Chamber of the Legislative Assembly (formerly red room) , similar in size and decor to the blue room, was used by the Legislative Council until it was abolished in 1968.1992, Quebec, page 197
    • On a number of occasions the Canadian flag was displayed in the National Assembly's red room; there were other occasions when it was not .1998, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons, page 5008
    Synonyms:
    red chamber

Noun (2) capitalized: Red Room

Red Room (plural Red Rooms)

  1. (Internet) According to an urban legend, a room where people are tortured and murdered for an audience of viewers via the Dark Web, the viewers sometimes voting or bidding on the form of torture to be performed.

Examples of red room in a sentence

  • "There's a door hidden in that knotty pine wall over there that leads to his red room of pain and submission,” she jeered.2014, Kris Calvert, Sex, Lies & Lipstick:
  • One day he is kidnapped by the police, imprisoned in the red room, and tortured.2015, Hye Seung Chung, David Scott Diffrient, Movie Migrations:
  • This was the second night he had visited the red room, and no matter how much they beat and tortured him, Agent Hughes had no idea how Kwesi had vanished without a trace.2022, Blitz Bazawule, The Scent of Burnt Flowers:
  • The plot centers around the player accessing the Dark Web to find a red room, where someone is streaming the live torture of a person.2022, Thomas J. Holt, Adam M. Bossler, Kathryn C. Seigfried-Spellar, Cybercrime and Digital Forensics:

Synonyms of red room

Forms of red room

pluralred rooms
pluralRed Rooms

Questions about red room

What does red room mean?
Red room means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, room.
How do you use red room in a sentence?
"There's a door hidden in that knotty pine wall over there that leads to his red room of pain and submission,” she jeered.
What part of speech is red room?
Red room is a noun.
What is the plural of red room?
The plural of red room is red rooms.

Words near red room in the dictionary

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  2. red rocket
  3. red rockets
  4. Red Roof Inn
  5. Red Roof Inns
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  7. red rooms
  8. Red Rose of Lancaster
  9. Red Roses
  10. red rosin paper
  11. red rot

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