Name given to Artilleryman for wearing a red strip down their pant leg. Also because diring the cannon ball days the balls would bounce in front of formations and were kbown to take the legs off alot of soldiers.
by Experienced drinker 52 October 03, 2019
A term used to desribe the first white slaves sold forever to the sugar planters of Barbados. they were prisoners of war from Cromwell's victories from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Now used as a derogatory term toward their decendents on the island
references are made in flogging mollys song "Tobacco Island" which is refering to Barbados (an Island in the west indies)
"hey Red Leg"
"hey Red Leg"
by HINKS1981 February 07, 2010