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red card meaning

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WRed card
  • Red card may refer to:
  • A penalty card that is shown in many sports after a rules infraction
  • A suit (cards) of hearts or diamonds
  • Red Card (album), 1976 release by Streetwalkers
  • RedCard 20-03, 2002 extreme football video game
  • Operation Red Card, 2006 Motion Picture Association anti-piracy drive in Asia
  • American Express Red, credit card
  • Target REDcard, a credit card issued by Target Corporation
  • In capital punishment in Iraq, a legal notice that execution is imminent
  • Industrial Workers of the World membership card
A red card.
A red card.

    Definition of red card in English Dictionary

  • NounPLred cardsPREré-SUF-ard
    1. (sports) A card displayed by the referee when a player is sent off for a serious infringement of the rules.
      1. An off the ball incident led to N'Zogbia confronting Wilshere before leaning his head into the Englishman and giving referee Lee Probert no choice but to show the red card.
    2. (colloquial) Any official instructions to vacate an area.
      1. I hoped to park in the members' area but the attendant showed me the red card.
  • More Examples
    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
      • But Torres's afternoon was to take a turn for the worse for a second week in succession as he was shown a straight red card by referee Mike Dean for a two-footed challenge on Gower.
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Nouns
      • Countable nouns
    Related Links:
    1. en red cards
    2. en red cardinal flower
    Source: Wiktionary

    Meaning of red card for the defined word.

    Grammatically, this idiom "red card" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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