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Noun
red man (plural red men)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, man.
- (now considered an ethnic slur and offensive) An American Indian, a Native American.
- 1977, Angela Carter, ‘That Arizona Home’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 337:
- The Sacred Circles show was heavily into myth, especially the current myth of the Red Man as mystic.
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- “red man”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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