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redbaiter

redbaiter is the alternative form of red-baiter.

Meaning of red-baiter

Noun

red-baiter (plural red-baiters)

  1. (US) A person who practices red-baiting.
    • On Feb. 9, 1950, notorious red-baiter Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) waved a piece of paper before the cameras that he claimed contained a list of 205 "card-carrying Communists in the State Department."2003 February 17, Leslie Feinberg, “'Lavender scare'!”, in Workers World
    Synonyms:
    red-tagger

Forms of redbaiter

pluralredbaiters

Questions about redbaiter

What is redbaiter the alternative form of?
Redbaiter is the alternative form of red-baiter.

Words near redbaiter in the dictionary

  1. redazzling
  2. redback
  3. redbacks
  4. redbait
  5. redbaited
  6. redbaiter
  7. redbaiters
  8. redbaiting
  9. redbaits
  10. Redban
  11. redband

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