The person most likely to die first in any TV show, or film, regardless of what colour sweater they're wearing.
Taken from Star Trek the Original Series, where the security guards wore red, one always 'beamed down' from the spaceship to planets on exploratory missions and always died first. Always.
Don't ever wear a red shirt on a space mission!
"Ahhh look at the Redshirt, he's gonna get it first"
"Nahh, the blonde'll die first, they always do in horror movies".
by nyet_da April 14, 2010
Expendable characters. Usually say one line or less before being killed in a plot-convenient manner.
Most often seen in classic 60's Trek.
by Heywood June 16, 2003
a term used in American college athletics for players, usually freshmen, withheld from competition in order to delay the beginning of their 4-year eligibilty period
by Dante Greene March 15, 2007
A play on college sports' "Redshirt" rule: they can't play, but they're still a part of the team.
Redshirt is another name that refers to underage girls (typically between the ages 16-17).
They're "a part of the team" = you can check them out, but "they cannot play" = you can't have sex with them because that's illegal.
"DAMN! Check out that Redshirt over there!"
"Yea, definitely going to be scouting her for the upcoming season"
"Yea, I wonder what her 40 (yard) time is looking like.."
"She's definitely going to be a starter one day."
"Bitch is going to the SEC with that talent."
by DJ Shag March 05, 2012
A chode from Standford.
Usually extremely prissy and or disgustingly wealthy.
Also known as, "momma's boy" or "dweeb"
People who pretend to be smart but really just paid their way into a bitch ass preppy school... for bitches. Who eat weiners.
by Chi-chi-yux-auh-chilla. May 13, 2009
A way to refer to someone getting screwed over by getting an unpleasant task or sheer bad luck.
Coined from the security guards from the original "STAR TREK" because they always got killed on assingment.
by Doc Evil March 12, 2005
The name of a group that is helding a rally in Thailand. They call themselves Red Shirts People and they wear red shirts.
Redshirts people support Thailand's ex prime minister, Thaksin Shinwatra.
This search keyword, "redshirts", is very popular now in twitter. Opposite groups some time call them "red buffaloes" as "buffaloes" in Thai means "stupid". This is an insult but ... it's a fact.
by yellowshirts April 20, 2010