by hans-åke December 20, 2008
Applied to one who does not fit in and is shunned for the differences and/or is bullied at a high degree
by Big Mike November 1, 2004
In business, this is a product, remote office, employee, etc., who doesn't get respect. The moniker stems from the popular slang phrase "beat you like a red-headed stepchild." Often times, the disrespect is undeserved.
If a product is an embarrassment to a company, it is the company's red-headed stepchild.
If a product is an embarrassment to a company, it is the company's red-headed stepchild.
The satellite office was outperforming the head office statistically, but because it created work for people in the head office, it was treated like a red-headed stepchild.
Because the Edsel didn't sell well, it became Ford's red-headed stepchild.
Because the Edsel didn't sell well, it became Ford's red-headed stepchild.
by Glenwood October 1, 2006
A term that originated out of the common mistreatment and social ostracism of redheaded individuals (gingers). A redheaded individual born into(legitamately or not), or adopted into a family of non-redheads was typically subject to physical and emotional abuse, and usually short handed when it came to financial matters in the family, such as the estate or any savings the family had acquired. Today, the term can be applied to an individual or group of individuals who are outcasts, or are typically dealt the worst hand in society.
by AppleFlapper April 17, 2009
Term from rural America describing person who is socially outcast and easily picked on. Usually meeting the business end of a fist, boot, broomstick, bat, broken bottle, and/or foreign objects of injurious force. Often at the end of the tag line, "I'll beat you like a..."
"Hey you boy, yeah you. We don't take kindly to new folk lookin' funny like that. You best be leavin' or I'll beat you like a red-headed stepchild"
by Bloody Abo September 5, 2006
Noun/Adjective: When someone is extremely undesirable and irrelevant in a group. In some instances you can refer to objects as such.
Timothy: Dude Charlie is like the red headed stepchild of this hockey team.
Mark: Dude I know, I’m trying to go full send but he is always in the way
Mark: Dude I know, I’m trying to go full send but he is always in the way
by John Martian November 29, 2017
The phrase was first coined by James Joyce in his smash-hit musical, Annie, in which he geniously depicts the stereotypical Irish-male's concern for slamming whiskey and disrespecting women, especially the ones from the loins of his sinner wife. (See child support.) Several years later, Joyce also uses this phrase in a letter to his actual wife to describe his penis.
1) Beat that thing like a red headed stepchild.
2) Perhaps I can help you beat your red headed stepchild. With my mouth.
2) Perhaps I can help you beat your red headed stepchild. With my mouth.
by Benjamin Franklin 1776 July 5, 2008