the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin. It is now considered pejorative by some persons of North American Indian heritage.
n. A member of the Washington Redskins, a football team.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A Red Indian; a North American Indian.
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n. (slang) offensive term for Native Americans
Word Usage
"Colonists used scalping to prove they had killed an Indian for bounty which is where the term "redskin" came from - and why they deem the Washingon Redskins so negatively"