red man
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
- 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, published 2013, page 337:
- The Sacred Circles show was heavily into myth, especially the current myth of the Red Man as mystic.
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:red man.
Synonyms[edit]
- redskin
- see also Thesaurus:Native American
Further reading[edit]
- “red man”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.