1. A poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit.
2. A sudden rapid flow (as of water); SYN. gush, outpouring.
ETYM AS. reádness. Related to Red.
The quality of being red in color.
Informal term for a leftist, revolutionary, or communist, which originated in the 19th century in the form “red republican”, meaning a republican who favored a social as well as a political revolution, generally by armed violence. Red is the color adopted by socialist and communist parties.
To be soft on these political philosophies, one is thereby tainted “pink”.