Meanings
comparative more arrest-me-red · superlative most arrest-me-red · alternative arrest-me red · alternative arrest me red
- humorousOf a bright red colour.
Since buying the town house on the other side of the clinic, he had enjoyed that rarest of New York rarities, an honest-to-goodness private garage, and he had celebrated by buying a brand-new arrest-me-red Ferrari.
1990, Judith Gould, Never Too Rich, New York, N. Y.: Penguin Group, published November 1991, →ISBN, page 235
Origin
Suggesting that vehicles painted bright red are more likely to attract the attention of law enforcement.
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