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redskirts

redskirts is the plural of redskirt.

Meaning of redskirt

Noun

redskirt (plural redskirts)

  1. (rare, slang) An unimportant or expendable female character, especially one introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril faced by important characters.
    • Wasn't there that episode where the aliens turned everyone into little blocks of styrofoam, and one of the aliens turned a redskirt and a redshirt into cubes and crumbled one of them? And then Scotty got really drunk. I seem to recall that the redskirt bought it that time.2007 February 10, Marc Goodman, “Re: Response to Steven Pinker's 'The Mystery of Consciousness'”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet)

Questions about redskirts

What is redskirts the plural of?
Redskirts is the plural of redskirt.

Words near redskirts in the dictionary

  1. redskin
  2. redskin onion
  3. redskinned
  4. redskins
  5. redskirt
  6. redskirts
  7. redsmith
  8. redsmiths
  9. redspotted
  10. redstart
  11. redstarts

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