When an individual is completely refusing to follow the rules or acting in a completely irresponsible manner, usually with no respect to the outcome.

Derived from a Jordan Holmes story of a soccer playing committing an offense, receiving a yellow card, eating said card, then receiving a red card for eating the yellow card, and finally eating the red card while being ejected from the game.
Lawyer 1: "Oh god my client is refusing to hand evidence over to the state, he is destroying any chance of winning this case and I might be sanctioned over this."
Lawyer 2: "Your client is really trying to eat the red card on this one."
by coystags August 25, 2023
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