redlined

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Verb[edit]

redlined

  1. simple past and past participle of redline

Adjective[edit]

redlined (not comparable)

  1. (military, of an aircraft) Marked with a red line to denote that it is unfit or unsafe for flight.
    • 1979 April 28, Mary A. Lowry, “Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines (review)”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
      [Female pilots] were forbidden to ferry aircraft overseas and, in the Civilian Air Patrol, on coastal patrols in the name of protecting our women, but were allowed to fly red lined aircraft that the men wouldn't fly.