red man

Noun

Meaning

(slang) offensive term for Native Americans

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

redskin injun indian aboriginal black Native American American Indian chieftain chief Amerind mulatto Red Indian prairie nigger red nigger timber nigger
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Hypernyms

Native American Amerindian

Examples

We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right. Joseph Lowery

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. Sitting Bull

Very bad thing, killing little boy. But maybe Red man knows about whisky-Red, very thirsty, making crazy. Not like killing man to take his house or his woman or his land, like White man all the time. Orson Scott Card

But the Red Man denied that time, though it must always be paid for, could always be paid for in money. Avram Davidson

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. Sitting Bull

A red dog, a read horse, a red man - none of them are good. Hungarian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

red maids red mallow red mammee red man syndrome red mandevilla red manganese