red-bait

English

Verb

red-bait (third-person singular simple present red-baits, present participle red-baiting, simple past and past participle red-baited)

1. Alternative form of redbait
   • 2014 April 25, Paul Krugman, “The Piketty Panic”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     At the same time, red-baiting anyone who questions any aspect of free-market dogma has been standard right-wing operating procedure ever since the likes of William F. Buckley tried to block the teaching of Keynesian economics, not by showing that it was wrong, but by denouncing it as “collectivist.”

Anagrams

• bitrade, tribade