red-ˈtapish,a. [f. red-tape, red tape + -ish.] Characterized or infected by red-tapism. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. iii. (1872) 94 One Intellect still really human, and not redtapish.1855Fraser's Mag. LI. 635 Close bodies tend to become narrow and red-tapish.