yellow shirt

plural yellow shirts · alternative Yellow Shirt

1. A sailor on an aircraft carrier responsible for directing aircraft.

   Then, out of the comer of my eye, I saw a blue shirt get blown down the flight deck. I saw a yellow shirt run up to him and drag him to safety.

   1992, Approach - Volume 37, Issue 7

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   I was extremely happy and excited when promoted to yellow shirt, but I was scared because I didn't want to make any mistakes or get chewed out for doing something wrong.

   1988, United States Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval Historical Center, Naval aviation news, page 21

   But too much turn, and the plane could start to slide and skid across the slippery flight deck. Caskey inched his Tomcat forward. As he approached the shuttle, the yellow shirt slowed his lighted wands.

   2009, James W. Huston, Balance of Power: A Novel, →ISBN, page 457

2. alternativeAlternative form of Yellow Shirt.

   The fact is my father is one of the leading activists against the yellow shirts. You do know about the situation in Bangkok?

   2012, Colin Cotterill, Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach: A Jimm Juree Mystery, →ISBN, page 82

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   Yellow shirts seized control of that all-important symbol of globalization that Darrell Berrigan had once written about — the airport — its tourists determining Thailand's future by either passing through or staying.

   2012, Gary L. Atkins, Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore, →ISBN

   I had just missed the red shirt rally in Pattaya months earlier, and somehow I missed flying to Suvarnabhumi Airport the week that the yellow shirts occupied it.

   2014, JJ Stone -, Bungee Love, →ISBN, page 283

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, shirt.

plural Yellow Shirts · alternative yellow shirt

1. A member of the Popular Alliance for Democracy (PAD), the organization responsible for the coup d'etat in Thailand in 2006.

   On the night of 6 October, the Yellow Shirts marched to parliament, erecting barricades with razor wire and booby traps.

   2015, Andrew MacGregor Marshall, A Kingdom in Crisis, →ISBN

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   This need became clear with the emergence and conflicts between the Yellow Shirt movement (2005-13) and the Red Shirt movement (2007-present).

   2014, N. Kim, Multicultural Challenges and Sustainable Democracy in Europe and East Asia, →ISBN

   The mass demonstrations led by the Yellow Shirts since 2005 sought to expel Thaksin, whom they regard as highly corrupt, manipulative, and authoritarian – a major threat to the country's democracy, monarchy, and national security as a whole.

   2014, Pranee Liamputtong, Contemporary Socio-Cultural and Political Perspectives in Thailand, →ISBN

   A survey with a sample size of 2,200 in five provinces, from the project Reexamining the Political Landscape of Thailand (Apichat et al., 2013) and conducted by Wanwiphand in April–June 2012, further confirmed Ammar's and Somchai's (2012) conclusions. Wanwiphand found that, firstly, Red Shirts were more likely to have lower socio-economic status than Yellow Shirts, and were also more likely to work in the agricultural or informal sectors.

   2016, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia, →ISBN, page 292

2. alternativeAlternative form of yellow shirt.

   Once out of the wire, the pilot would follow the hand signals of a Yellow Shirt, a sailor wearing a yellow shirt, to the parking place picked out with great care by another intense group of people playing musical chairs with airplanes from a room in the island on the same level as the flight deck.

   1988, George C. Wilson, Supercarrier, →ISBN

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   When he got to the ship, I stopped him and started my lecture. "Now, J. J., you know bringing liquor onboard is against regulations. I'm supposed to report you and have you thrown into the brig. But you and I have been through a lot together on the flight deck. So, this is what I'm going to do: I'm going to turn around and I want to hear two splashes. " I wanted to give J.J. a break — after all, he was my buddy and a fellow Yellow Shirt.

   2009, Andrew Zenas Adkins, The Lawyer's Guide to Practice Management Systems Software, →ISBN