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redshirt
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A supporter of the Italian nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi, especially a member of his thousand-man army which conquered Sicily.
Other meanings
2. noun
A revolutionary or anarchist.
3. noun
A college athlete who spends a year not participating in official athletic activities, but does not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
4. noun
An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.
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