red-cardv.
/ˌrɛdˈkɑːd/, U.S. /ˈˌrɛdˈkɑrd/ 1. transitive. U.S. To boycott (a retailer) for breaking a pricing agreement; to exclude. Now rare.
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1935 N.Y. Times 8 Dec. f9/3 The Guild had decided to require new pledges from retailers on the extension of style protection to all price lines and to ‘red card’ those refusing to sign.
1938 W. H. Hamilton et al. Price & Price Policies vi. 340 If the pledge is broken, the store is ‘red-carded’.
2. transitive. Sport. Of a referee: to signal the dismissal of (a player) from the field by the showing of a red card. Also in extended use.
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1979 Washington Post 28 July c5/3 Last season, Washington's Mike Dillon jostled a referee in Dallas after being red-carded and received a six-game suspension.
1996 Sunday Sport 29 Sept. 46/3 Referee Paul Danson's catalogue of cock-ups left the Roker men with Mission Impossible after he cruelly red-carded Martin Scott and Paul Stewart in the first half.
2000 Dandy 27 May 19/2 I'm red-carding football, we'll play a different game!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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