red-flaggedadj.
/ˌrɛdˈflaɡd/, U.S. /ˈˌrɛdˈflæɡd/ 1. Bearing or flying a red flag; spec. bearing a red flag as a symbol of revolution, socialism, or communism (also figurative; cf. red flag n. 4a).
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1872 M. E. Braddon To Bitter End III. ix. 146 The breaking-up of the party in the red-flagged tent.
1889 Critic (N.Y.) 26 Jan. 43/2 William Morris, the poet, and William Morris, the flannel-shirted, red-flagged orator of Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square, were..one and the same person.
1917 Ann. Amer. Acad. 72 118 Barbary pirates,..the heirs of long generations of ocean pirates from the red-flagged Phoenician traders 3,000 years ago.
1930 Times 15 Sept. 12/3 Convoys of red-flagged lorries toured the streets, their Socialist or Communist occupants chanting party slogans.
2007 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 23 May b1 Red-flagged stakes sprout across a field of wild flowers where horses graze.
2. Chiefly North American. Identified (sometimes with a red flag or marker) as a cause for concern or as warranting special attention. Cf. red-flag v. 2.
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1969 Polity 2 223 He signed urgent red-flagged files as I talked.
1986 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 18 Sept. 9 When the recorder received a request for a red-flagged certificate, he would not honor the request until getting direction from the proper law enforcement agency.
2008 New Yorker (Nexis) 5 May In 2003, a Tier 2 Watch List was added—a sort of red-flagged status to indicate that a country, despite its efforts to reduce trafficking, has a high or an increasing number of victims.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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