red flagn.

Brit.

/rɛd ˈflaɡ/, U.S.

/ˌrɛd ˈflæɡ/

Forms: see red adj. and n. and flag n.⁴

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., flag n.⁴

Etymology: < red adj. + flag n.⁴With red flag to a bull at sense 2b compare like a red rag to a bull at red rag n. 2. With sense 3 compare earlier Red Ensign n. The use as a socialist or revolutionary symbol (see sense 4a) was probably originally prompted by the red flag formerly raised in France as a signal that martial law was proclaimed (a use related to that in sense 1), hence construed as showing that a state of insurrection existed. Compare the following, with reference to events during the French Revolution:1794 Impartial Hist. Revol. in France v. 241 The mob attacked the national guard, and one man had the audacity to fire on M. la Fayette himself...The red flag was now displayed, and martial law proclaimed. Subsequently, the red flag was adopted as a symbol of the Revolution by the Jacobins. Compare French drapeau rouge (1789, originally with reference to the flag signalling the declaration of martial law). Compare also later red adj. 18 and discussion there. With later spec. uses with reference to the former Soviet Union compare red banner n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1f(c)(i) and the Russian parallels cited at that lemma.

1. A flag of red material displayed as a sign of battle-readiness or (in extended use) defiance.In later use chiefly Navy.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > flag, banner, or standard > flag as sign of battle

red flag1585

society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > red flag as sign of battle

red flag1585

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. i. f. 31 ^v We descryed a great ship... And yet notwithstanding wee had giuen them a shot of assurance, yet left not to set vp a redde flagge in which were painted the armes of Candia, and began to prepare themselues to the fight.

1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. H^v What, dost summon a parlie my little Drum-sticke? tis too late; thou seest my red flag is hung out.

1666 London Gaz. No. 91/4 That the Red Flag was out, both Fleets in sight of each other, expecting every hour fit weather to Engage.

1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World II. viii. 80 Towards the end of the last Chapter I hung out the red Flag of Defyance, and told the Corporation of Authors..I intended to fire a whole Broadside among 'em.

1711 tr. Plutarch Lives I. 606 He set up the red Flag over his Tent, which was the signal of Battle.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Flag The red Flag is the Signal of Defiance and Battle.

1792 J. Trapp tr. A. Rochon Voy. Madagascar 323 A little while after the advanced guard announced that he saw a red flag, which is the ordinary signal for engaging in this island.

1832 G. Nugent-Grenville Some Mem. John Hampden II. 250 Sir Edward then..hung out a red flag of defiance from Guy's Tower.

a1895 Ld. C. E. Paget Autobiogr. (1896) iv. 98 [He came] to tell me that the [Russian] forts were in sight, and a red flag flying. ‘Odds bones!’ said I, ‘don't they mean to give any quarter, then?’

1938 C. E. L. Phillips Cromwell's Captains iii. v. 203 A third shot tore through his mainsail, and in a rage, Tromp ran up the red flag of battle and replied with a broadside.

1956 F. Pratt Battles that changed Hist. 261 He hung out the red flag for battle from his flagship.

2005 M. A. Palmer Command at Sea vi. 119 His flagship promptly ran up a red flag—the signal for ‘every ship in the fleet to use their utmost endeavour to engage the enemy as close as possible’.

a. A sign of danger, a warning; a signal to stop. Also figurative.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > flag signalling > [noun] > signal flag > specific

black flag1583

yellow flag1587

red flag1748

yellow jack1753

Blue Peter1754

fire flag1798

recall1832

pilot jack1848

homeward-bound pennant1853

powder flag1864

paying-off pennant1869

Peter1890

storm flag1896

negative flag1897

blackball1966

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vi. 349 A boat a-head of us waved a red flag, and blew a horn. This we considered as a signal.., either to warn us of some shoal, or to inform us that they would supply us with a Pilot.

1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain I. iii. 23 There is a red flag hoisted gradually higher and higher, as the water flows into the harbour [at Calais].

1856 N.Y. Herald 12 Jan. 1/4 James Flood is road master of his section; any obstruction being on the track it is the duty of the flagman to exhibit his red flag.

1885 C. M. Yonge Nuttie's Father I. xiii. 153 They went into a hole and stuck fast, while the red-flag traction engineman prodded her with an umbrella.

1908 R. Kipling in Flag (Union Jack Club) 8 Thou didst flee up Cheepe, calling..for a red flag.

1968 J. Updike Couples ii. 146 You're sore as hell about some silly thing, maybe Harold's snubbing you, maybe you have the red flag out, but you're right there.

1973 ‘C. Aird’ His Burial Too iii. 32 The roadmen went and got into a muddle with their flags... One of them..apparently gets a power complex every time anyone puts a red flag into his hand.

1991 Insight 4 Feb. 53/2 ‘When there's a jailhouse confession, the red flag goes up,’ says McCloskey, who ultimately proved the jailhouse witness had lied.

1994 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 June a16/2 Gordon, who was penalized for stopping on the track when he ran out of fuel, bringing out a red flag to retrieve his stalled car, will be hoping to..hang on for his first Indy-Car pole position.

b. In full red flag to a bull. A source of provocation; = red rag n. 2. Frequently in similative use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [noun] > action of infuriating > that which infuriates

red rag1720

red flag1845

infuriant1953

1797 R. Broome Strictures on Mr. Burke's Two Lett. 35 To suffer ourselves to be deluded to the attack by collateral and partial resemblances, would be to imitate the stupid animal which aims its horns at the fluttering of the red flag.]

1845 Amer. Whig Rev. June 569/2 The Club was to the opposing party what the red flag is to the bull.

1872 Times 17 July 11/1 The name of Jesuits had only been brought forward as a red flag to madden the world.

1893 Lipincott's Monthly Mag. 52 411 This bicycle-riding is in Kizzy's mind the most disreputable thing a woman can do, and the sight of a girl on a wheel..is like a red flag to a bull.

1918 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 78 200 They regarded [him] as pro-German... He was a red flag to most patriotic Englishmen.

1962 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 29 475 Scabbing to a striker is as much a provocation as the proverbial red flag to the bull.

2007 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 1 June d1 West's pointing at second base was like a red flag for Bard, who charged onto the field.

c. A flag of red material used to signal the start of a race.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting signal

startc1612

starting1827

flag1856

red flag1893

gun1900

1893 Manitoba Morning Free Press 30 Oct. 5/1 Promptly at 3.30 the red flag went down and two great runners thrust out their noses.

1913 Washington Post 20 July (Mag. section) 4/3 A row of cars were drawn up on the string line behind the official starter, who stood ready to drop the red flag that would send them hurling on their way.

1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 17 Aug. Between the time the blue flag came down, and the red flag and the horn signalled the start of the race, the wind had died.

1999 P. Hastings Sports for Her 179 In each race, six boats line up at the starting line and take off when the official signals with a red flag.

2004 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 26 July a1 As per tradition, Armstrong was allowed to ride first out of the village as Tour Director Jean Marie Leblanc waved the red flag to start the stage.

3. A flag of red material used to identify the ship of an admiral of the Red Squadron of the Royal Navy. Also: = Red Ensign n. 1.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > naval or merchant

pavilion1572

blue flag1613

jack1633

white ensign1676

Red Ensign1720

Blue Ensign1745

red flag1757

red rag1809

Union Jack1832

duster1904

red duster1914

society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > emblem of admiral's rank afloat

flag1695

red flag1757

1757 Universal Mag. Sept. 115/2 The English fleet divided into three squadrons. The first, under the Red flag, was commanded by the Duke of York, assisted by Penn and Lawson.

1901 W. C. Russell Ship's Adventure v. 78 He..had begun the sea life in the Royal Navy as midshipman, but..had quitted the white for the red flag, and had been in command five years.

1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) 86 Each squadron commanded by ‘flag officers’..a vice-admiral in a leading ship (with a white flag), the commanding admiral in the centre (a red flag), and a rear admiral in the ship at the back (his flag was blue).

a. A symbol of revolution, socialism, or communism, frequently spec. of Soviet Russian communism (now historical). Also figurative.

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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > symbol of revolution

bonnet rouge1793

red flag1806

red-bonnet1825

society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > specific emblems, badges, or cognizances > political

yellow badge1663

white rose1716

red flag1806

red rag1871

Hakenkreuz1922

swastika1932

yellow star1941

society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > red flag as sign of revolution

red flag1806

1806 Female Revolutionary Plutarch I. 360 In the..Hotel de Richelieu assembled another and an opposition party... Over the door of the entrance was suspended a red flag and a red cap. Nobody was a member of it who could not prove himself to have committed since the revolution some crimes deserving the gallows should royalty be restored.

1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 896/1 The red flag of Revolution is generally unfurled by the Movement party.

1847 G. Pellew Life Henry Addington I. vii. 194 How must it have gratified their feelings to see the same ships which..had so recently unfurled the red flag of rebellion, now riding triumphant under the banner of England.

1857 C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace I. xx. 322 Muskets and pikes were here and there seen, and once he recognized the sinister red flag.

1878 Indianapolis Sentinel 23 May 4/6 We denounce the red flag communism imported from Europe.

1889 J. Connell in Justice 21 Dec. 3/2 Then raise the scarlet standard high! Within its shade we'll live and die! Though cowards flinch, and traitors jeer, We'll keep the Red Flag flying here!

1914 G. K. Chesterton Flying Inn xxiii. 274 A very coarse strip of red rag..had been tied round the wooden sign-post by way of a red flag of revolution.

1922 W. J. Locke Tale of Triona xvii. 199 The only positive ideal in England at the present moment is Bolshevism. The only flag waved..is the red flag.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 711/1 In the urban centres the victory was won under the red flag of class warfare.

1974 P. Gore-Booth With Great Truth & Respect 210 The country was infested with various hostiles, Red Flag Communists, White Flag Communists, Karens or simply dacoits.

2004 Moscow Times (Nexis) 24 Sept. Stalin and the October Revolution were common themes in the music, which was played against a backdrop of ubiquitous red flags.

b. With the and capital initials. (The name of) a song written by Irish socialist James Connell (1850–1929) during the London strike of 1889, and sung to the tune of ‘O Tannenbaum’. See quot. 1889 at sense 4a.Long associated with the British Labour Party.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > socialist songs

red flag1889

Internationale1893

international1900

1889 Justice 21 Dec. 3/2 (headline) A Christmas carol. The red flag. [Followed by the verses of the song.]

1909 R. Brooke Let. 2 Jan. (1968) 154 Yes! yes! Herbert Samuel..is a Socialist... He used to sing The Red Flag after dinner every night instead of grace.

1935 H. Nicolson Let. 1 Nov. (1966) 222 He..left the hall while they sang the Red Flag.

1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds ix. 160 A covey of West German millionaires who were singing the Red Flag in a hypnotised dirge.

1976 Whitaker's Almanack 361/1 Labour M.P.s in their jubilation sang ‘The Red Flag’, shouted, and waved order papers in the air.

1997 Independent 6 May 8/8 Songsheets were handed out before the meeting began but when the audience stood to sing the Red Flag, few needed them.

Derivatives

red ˈflagger n. one who carries a red flag; a socialist or communist.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > adherent of

communist1850

red flagger1886

redshirt1889

red ragger1909

commie1928

red1928

Commo1941

1886 Punch 17 Apr. 185/2 They 'ate us, these rorty Red Flaggers, they 'ate us like rhubub all round.

a1898 W. C. Brann Brann Iconoclast (1911) II. 233 He's a red-flagger, an enemy of vested rights and a dangerous crank.

1921 Times 4 Feb. 11/6 The common enemy..what Belfast of today calls the ‘red-flaggers’.

1934 G. B. Shaw On the Rocks (new ed.) ii, in Too True to be Good 231 That's the way to dish these Labor chaps and Red flaggers.

1995 B. Brim Blood & Glory iii. 19 The United States authorities sent us word to get out, that we were in great danger, the red-flaggers were coming.

red ˈflaggery n. communist or socialist doctrines or beliefs regarded collectively.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > communist doctrines

red flaggery1919

1919 A. de Blácam Towards Republic (ed. 2) iv. 40 To preserve our people from Red-Flaggery..it is much to be wished that an Irish Lacordaire should arise to champion in high places the workers' cause.

1948 B. Still Milwaukee xii. 317 Raising the bogey of ‘red flaggery’, he asserted that the ‘news, flashed over the country..that “Socialists Carry Milwaukee” would do more mischief in a day than our associations..could undo in a year’.

1989 E. O'Connor Labour Hist. of Waterford vi. 159 There was more red flaggery at a large NUR meeting to toast the success of the soviet.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	red flag
释义	red flagn. Brit. /rɛd ˈflaɡ/, U.S. /ˌrɛd ˈflæɡ/ Forms: see red adj. and n. and flag n.⁴ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., flag n.⁴ Etymology: < red adj. + flag n.⁴With red flag to a bull at sense 2b compare like a red rag to a bull at red rag n. 2. With sense 3 compare earlier Red Ensign n. The use as a socialist or revolutionary symbol (see sense 4a) was probably originally prompted by the red flag formerly raised in France as a signal that martial law was proclaimed (a use related to that in sense 1), hence construed as showing that a state of insurrection existed. Compare the following, with reference to events during the French Revolution:1794 Impartial Hist. Revol. in France v. 241 The mob attacked the national guard, and one man had the audacity to fire on M. la Fayette himself...The red flag was now displayed, and martial law proclaimed. Subsequently, the red flag was adopted as a symbol of the Revolution by the Jacobins. Compare French drapeau rouge (1789, originally with reference to the flag signalling the declaration of martial law). Compare also later red adj. 18 and discussion there. With later spec. uses with reference to the former Soviet Union compare red banner n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1f(c)(i) and the Russian parallels cited at that lemma. 1. A flag of red material displayed as a sign of battle-readiness or (in extended use) defiance.In later use chiefly Navy. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > flag, banner, or standard > flag as sign of battle red flag1585 society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > red flag as sign of battle red flag1585 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. i. f. 31 ^v We descryed a great ship... And yet notwithstanding wee had giuen them a shot of assurance, yet left not to set vp a redde flagge in which were painted the armes of Candia, and began to prepare themselues to the fight. 1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. H^v What, dost summon a parlie my little Drum-sticke? tis too late; thou seest my red flag is hung out. 1666 London Gaz. No. 91/4 That the Red Flag was out, both Fleets in sight of each other, expecting every hour fit weather to Engage. 1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World II. viii. 80 Towards the end of the last Chapter I hung out the red Flag of Defyance, and told the Corporation of Authors..I intended to fire a whole Broadside among 'em. 1711 tr. Plutarch Lives I. 606 He set up the red Flag over his Tent, which was the signal of Battle. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Flag The red Flag is the Signal of Defiance and Battle. 1792 J. Trapp tr. A. Rochon Voy. Madagascar 323 A little while after the advanced guard announced that he saw a red flag, which is the ordinary signal for engaging in this island. 1832 G. Nugent-Grenville Some Mem. John Hampden II. 250 Sir Edward then..hung out a red flag of defiance from Guy's Tower. a1895 Ld. C. E. Paget Autobiogr. (1896) iv. 98 [He came] to tell me that the [Russian] forts were in sight, and a red flag flying. ‘Odds bones!’ said I, ‘don't they mean to give any quarter, then?’ 1938 C. E. L. Phillips Cromwell's Captains iii. v. 203 A third shot tore through his mainsail, and in a rage, Tromp ran up the red flag of battle and replied with a broadside. 1956 F. Pratt Battles that changed Hist. 261 He hung out the red flag for battle from his flagship. 2005 M. A. Palmer Command at Sea vi. 119 His flagship promptly ran up a red flag—the signal for ‘every ship in the fleet to use their utmost endeavour to engage the enemy as close as possible’. 2. a. A sign of danger, a warning; a signal to stop. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > flag signalling > [noun] > signal flag > specific black flag1583 yellow flag1587 red flag1748 yellow jack1753 Blue Peter1754 fire flag1798 recall1832 pilot jack1848 homeward-bound pennant1853 powder flag1864 paying-off pennant1869 Peter1890 storm flag1896 negative flag1897 blackball1966 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vi. 349 A boat a-head of us waved a red flag, and blew a horn. This we considered as a signal.., either to warn us of some shoal, or to inform us that they would supply us with a Pilot. 1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain I. iii. 23 There is a red flag hoisted gradually higher and higher, as the water flows into the harbour [at Calais]. 1856 N.Y. Herald 12 Jan. 1/4 James Flood is road master of his section; any obstruction being on the track it is the duty of the flagman to exhibit his red flag. 1885 C. M. Yonge Nuttie's Father I. xiii. 153 They went into a hole and stuck fast, while the red-flag traction engineman prodded her with an umbrella. 1908 R. Kipling in Flag (Union Jack Club) 8 Thou didst flee up Cheepe, calling..for a red flag. 1968 J. Updike Couples ii. 146 You're sore as hell about some silly thing, maybe Harold's snubbing you, maybe you have the red flag out, but you're right there. 1973 ‘C. Aird’ His Burial Too iii. 32 The roadmen went and got into a muddle with their flags... One of them..apparently gets a power complex every time anyone puts a red flag into his hand. 1991 Insight 4 Feb. 53/2 ‘When there's a jailhouse confession, the red flag goes up,’ says McCloskey, who ultimately proved the jailhouse witness had lied. 1994 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 June a16/2 Gordon, who was penalized for stopping on the track when he ran out of fuel, bringing out a red flag to retrieve his stalled car, will be hoping to..hang on for his first Indy-Car pole position. b. In full red flag to a bull. A source of provocation; = red rag n. 2. Frequently in similative use. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [noun] > action of infuriating > that which infuriates red rag1720 red flag1845 infuriant1953 1797 R. Broome Strictures on Mr. Burke's Two Lett. 35 To suffer ourselves to be deluded to the attack by collateral and partial resemblances, would be to imitate the stupid animal which aims its horns at the fluttering of the red flag.] 1845 Amer. Whig Rev. June 569/2 The Club was to the opposing party what the red flag is to the bull. 1872 Times 17 July 11/1 The name of Jesuits had only been brought forward as a red flag to madden the world. 1893 Lipincott's Monthly Mag. 52 411 This bicycle-riding is in Kizzy's mind the most disreputable thing a woman can do, and the sight of a girl on a wheel..is like a red flag to a bull. 1918 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 78 200 They regarded [him] as pro-German... He was a red flag to most patriotic Englishmen. 1962 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 29 475 Scabbing to a striker is as much a provocation as the proverbial red flag to the bull. 2007 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 1 June d1 West's pointing at second base was like a red flag for Bard, who charged onto the field. c. A flag of red material used to signal the start of a race. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting signal startc1612 starting1827 flag1856 red flag1893 gun1900 1893 Manitoba Morning Free Press 30 Oct. 5/1 Promptly at 3.30 the red flag went down and two great runners thrust out their noses. 1913 Washington Post 20 July (Mag. section) 4/3 A row of cars were drawn up on the string line behind the official starter, who stood ready to drop the red flag that would send them hurling on their way. 1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 17 Aug. Between the time the blue flag came down, and the red flag and the horn signalled the start of the race, the wind had died. 1999 P. Hastings Sports for Her 179 In each race, six boats line up at the starting line and take off when the official signals with a red flag. 2004 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 26 July a1 As per tradition, Armstrong was allowed to ride first out of the village as Tour Director Jean Marie Leblanc waved the red flag to start the stage. 3. A flag of red material used to identify the ship of an admiral of the Red Squadron of the Royal Navy. Also: = Red Ensign n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > naval or merchant pavilion1572 blue flag1613 jack1633 white ensign1676 Red Ensign1720 Blue Ensign1745 red flag1757 red rag1809 Union Jack1832 duster1904 red duster1914 society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > emblem of admiral's rank afloat flag1695 red flag1757 1757 Universal Mag. Sept. 115/2 The English fleet divided into three squadrons. The first, under the Red flag, was commanded by the Duke of York, assisted by Penn and Lawson. 1901 W. C. Russell Ship's Adventure v. 78 He..had begun the sea life in the Royal Navy as midshipman, but..had quitted the white for the red flag, and had been in command five years. 1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) 86 Each squadron commanded by ‘flag officers’..a vice-admiral in a leading ship (with a white flag), the commanding admiral in the centre (a red flag), and a rear admiral in the ship at the back (his flag was blue). 4. a. A symbol of revolution, socialism, or communism, frequently spec. of Soviet Russian communism (now historical). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > symbol of revolution bonnet rouge1793 red flag1806 red-bonnet1825 society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > specific emblems, badges, or cognizances > political yellow badge1663 white rose1716 red flag1806 red rag1871 Hakenkreuz1922 swastika1932 yellow star1941 society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > red flag as sign of revolution red flag1806 1806 Female Revolutionary Plutarch I. 360 In the..Hotel de Richelieu assembled another and an opposition party... Over the door of the entrance was suspended a red flag and a red cap. Nobody was a member of it who could not prove himself to have committed since the revolution some crimes deserving the gallows should royalty be restored. 1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 896/1 The red flag of Revolution is generally unfurled by the Movement party. 1847 G. Pellew Life Henry Addington I. vii. 194 How must it have gratified their feelings to see the same ships which..had so recently unfurled the red flag of rebellion, now riding triumphant under the banner of England. 1857 C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace I. xx. 322 Muskets and pikes were here and there seen, and once he recognized the sinister red flag. 1878 Indianapolis Sentinel 23 May 4/6 We denounce the red flag communism imported from Europe. 1889 J. Connell in Justice 21 Dec. 3/2 Then raise the scarlet standard high! Within its shade we'll live and die! Though cowards flinch, and traitors jeer, We'll keep the Red Flag flying here! 1914 G. K. Chesterton Flying Inn xxiii. 274 A very coarse strip of red rag..had been tied round the wooden sign-post by way of a red flag of revolution. 1922 W. J. Locke Tale of Triona xvii. 199 The only positive ideal in England at the present moment is Bolshevism. The only flag waved..is the red flag. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 711/1 In the urban centres the victory was won under the red flag of class warfare. 1974 P. Gore-Booth With Great Truth & Respect 210 The country was infested with various hostiles, Red Flag Communists, White Flag Communists, Karens or simply dacoits. 2004 Moscow Times (Nexis) 24 Sept. Stalin and the October Revolution were common themes in the music, which was played against a backdrop of ubiquitous red flags. b. With the and capital initials. (The name of) a song written by Irish socialist James Connell (1850–1929) during the London strike of 1889, and sung to the tune of ‘O Tannenbaum’. See quot. 1889 at sense 4a.Long associated with the British Labour Party. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > socialist songs red flag1889 Internationale1893 international1900 1889 Justice 21 Dec. 3/2 (headline) A Christmas carol. The red flag. [Followed by the verses of the song.] 1909 R. Brooke Let. 2 Jan. (1968) 154 Yes! yes! Herbert Samuel..is a Socialist... He used to sing The Red Flag after dinner every night instead of grace. 1935 H. Nicolson Let. 1 Nov. (1966) 222 He..left the hall while they sang the Red Flag. 1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds ix. 160 A covey of West German millionaires who were singing the Red Flag in a hypnotised dirge. 1976 Whitaker's Almanack 361/1 Labour M.P.s in their jubilation sang ‘The Red Flag’, shouted, and waved order papers in the air. 1997 Independent 6 May 8/8 Songsheets were handed out before the meeting began but when the audience stood to sing the Red Flag, few needed them. Derivatives red ˈflagger n. one who carries a red flag; a socialist or communist. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > adherent of communist1850 red flagger1886 redshirt1889 red ragger1909 commie1928 red1928 Commo1941 1886 Punch 17 Apr. 185/2 They 'ate us, these rorty Red Flaggers, they 'ate us like rhubub all round. a1898 W. C. Brann Brann Iconoclast (1911) II. 233 He's a red-flagger, an enemy of vested rights and a dangerous crank. 1921 Times 4 Feb. 11/6 The common enemy..what Belfast of today calls the ‘red-flaggers’. 1934 G. B. Shaw On the Rocks (new ed.) ii, in Too True to be Good 231 That's the way to dish these Labor chaps and Red flaggers. 1995 B. Brim Blood & Glory iii. 19 The United States authorities sent us word to get out, that we were in great danger, the red-flaggers were coming. red ˈflaggery n. communist or socialist doctrines or beliefs regarded collectively. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > communist doctrines red flaggery1919 1919 A. de Blácam Towards Republic (ed. 2) iv. 40 To preserve our people from Red-Flaggery..it is much to be wished that an Irish Lacordaire should arise to champion in high places the workers' cause. 1948 B. Still Milwaukee xii. 317 Raising the bogey of ‘red flaggery’, he asserted that the ‘news, flashed over the country..that “Socialists Carry Milwaukee” would do more mischief in a day than our associations..could undo in a year’. 1989 E. O'Connor Labour Hist. of Waterford vi. 159 There was more red flaggery at a large NUR meeting to toast the success of the soviet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1585
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