red-headed stepchild
Applied to one who does not fit in and is shunned for the differences and/or is bullied at a high degree
red-headed stepchild by Big Mike October 31, 2004
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Red-headed stepchild
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.
Red-headed stepchild by Glenwood October 1, 2006
Red-headed stepchild
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"
Red-headed stepchild by Bloody Abo September 5, 2006
red headed stepchild
A child who is obviously not your own, a child who is treated worse than other children in the family
red headed stepchild by Vindriss December 28, 2005
red headed stepchild
With red hair being rare, a child born to non red headed parents was often assumed to be the child of an affair. Thus was treated badly, usually in the form of beatings.
red headed stepchild by Little Red Knitter January 28, 2009
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red headed stepchild by Tim September 13, 2004
Red Headed Stepchild
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.
Red Headed Stepchild by AppleFlapper April 17, 2009
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