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Prophetic attire worn by most doomed characters on the original "Star Trek" TV show
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redshirt
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Word definitions for redshirt in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to withdraw (a player) from the varsity team to add a year to his or her eligibility," 1955, in reference to the red shirts worn by athletes on the scrimmage squad; from red (adj.1) + shirt (n.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Redshirt , in United States college athletics , is a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation in order to lengthen his or her period of eligibility. Typically, a student's athletic eligibility in a given sport is four seasons, a number derived ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context US collegiate sports English) an athlete who spends a year not participating in official athletic activities, but does not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years vb. 1 (context US collegiate sports English) ...
Usage examples of redshirt.
It was a job that any competent redshirt could have handled, but she found a certain serenity in making these familiar rounds.
Obviously acquainted with her stubbornness, and knowing where any argument would eventually end, the redshirt covered the distance to the brig in four long strides.
No sooner had the captain emerged from the valley than he spotted two more redshirts in the distance—and these were flanking the commodore himself.
Kevin still harbors his adolescent desire to see his name shared with a doomed redshirted ensign in an Original Series novel.
Jimmy the Predictor is expecting all four of the security redshirts to die on that one.