Usually means: Preserve eligibility, delay college competition.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word redshirt:

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  1. redshirt: Merriam-Webster
  2. redshirt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. redshirt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. redshirt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Redshirt, redshirt: Wordnik
  6. Redshirt, redshirt: Wiktionary
  7. redshirt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. redshirt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. redshirt: Dictionary.com
  10. redshirt (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Redshirt (character), Redshirt (college sports), Redshirt (disambiguation), Redshirt (stock character), Redshirt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. redshirt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. redshirt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

(Note: See redshirted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Redshirt)

noun:  (now historical) A supporter of the Italian nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi, especially a member of his thousand-man army which conquered Sicily.
noun:  (now chiefly historical) A revolutionary or anarchist.
noun:  (US, sports) 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.
noun:  (fiction, science fiction, fandom slang) An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.
noun:  (US, military) A person responsible for loading and unloading weapons, artillery, and equipment from aircraft.
verb:  (US, collegiate sports) To place an athlete in a status wherein the athlete will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities, but will not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
verb:  (US, collegiate sports) To take on a status wherein one will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities.
verb:  (US) To hold a child out of kindergarten for one year in the hope that the child will do better academically and socially.
noun:  Alternative form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”). [A member of the UDD (National United Front for Democracy) who supported Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (and subsequent Thaksin-affiliated parties) in the conflict in Thailand after the 2006 coup d'etat.]
noun:  Alternative form of Red Shirt [A member of the UDD (National United Front for Democracy) who supported Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (and subsequent Thaksin-affiliated parties) in the conflict in Thailand after the 2006 coup d'etat.]

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