red man

plural red men

1. ethnicoffensiveslurAn American Indian; a Native American.

   The Sacred Circles show was heavily into myth, especially the current myth of the Red Man as mystic.

   1977, Angela Carter, “That Arizona Home”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 337

   Synonyms: redskin, American Indian, Amerind, Amerindian, First American, Indian, Indigenous American, Indigenous North American

2. IrelandUKA small figure of a standing man illuminated in red on a traffic light at a pedestrian crossing, indicating that it is not safe to cross the road.First known use 20th c.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, man.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:red man.