Redshirt

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To keep (a college or school athlete) out of varsity competition for one year in order to extend the athlete's period of eligibility.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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
  • v. to place an athlete in a status wherein the athlete will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities, but will not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
  • v. To hold a child out of kindergarten for one year in the hope that the child will do better academically and socially.
  • n. An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.
  • n. A person responsible for loading and unloading weapons, artillery, and equipment from aircraft.
  • Word Usage
    "From Wikipedia: A redshirt is a stock character, used frequently in science fiction but also in other genres, whose purpose is to die soon after being introduced, thus indicating the dangerous circumstances faced by the main characters."
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