red-bait

A form of redbait — To attack by denouncing as a Communist.

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Meanings

verbred-bait (third-person singular simple present red-baits, present participle red-baiting, simple past and past participle red-baited)

present singular third person red-baits · participle present red-baiting · participle past red-baited · past red-baited

  1. alternativeAlternative form of redbait.

    At the same time, red-baiting anyone who questions any aspect of free-market dogma has been standard right-wing operating procedure ever since the likes of William F. Buckley tried to block the teaching of Keynesian economics, not by showing that it was wrong, but by denouncing it as “collectivist.”

    2014 April 25, Paul Krugman, “The Piketty Panic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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APA

red-bait. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red-bait

MLA

“red-bait.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red-bait. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “red-bait,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red-bait.

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