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1. What American revolutionaries would pejoratively call the British army that wore bright red uniforms.

2. A British friend you want verbally poke.
British friend: "Biscuits are not suppose to be buttery pastries, they're suppose be hard crackers made for the tea time digestion, silly American."

American friend: "I made these for you! What? You don't like my biscuits? Ok, this means war, bring it redcoat."
Redcoat by Ernesto Gluecksmann January 30, 2008
Redhats are neither whitehat nor blackhat, but a mix of both. Adapted from early RPG games where white mages used healing, protective "good" spells, black mages used elemental, destructive "bad" spells, and red mages had a selection of spells from both.

Examples of redhats:
- People who are hired to find security holes in a network, do so, but create new exploits in order to take advantage of later.

- Someone who breaks into a secure area and then informs the owner that they can fix the security holes if they hire them.

- Someone who works in network security and uses their job experience to take advantage of exploits either within their own company or elsewhere.
This redhat is offering to fix our security holes for $5,000.
redhat by Jon Byrd October 28, 2005
There's lot of definitions for red hat, and is often used without explanation. It's all about context.

Most recently and most frequently it's a reference to Donald Trump's infamous "Make America Great Again" MAGA red hat.

Ironically on the left wing, red is the traditional color of communism. The same red beret worn US airborne troopers were also worn by militant socialists or union organizers. Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, was called a red hat.

Pre-World War II, pacifists and union organizers were called red hats. The "Red Hat Acoustic Music Club" celebrates this usage.

Red hat can be used as a reference to the Bloods criminal gang, such as Jay-Z "What's Free" song.

Red-hats / red caps are malevolent spirits found in the lowlands of Scotland. Their red hats would frequently re-dyed in human blood. It's associated with violence and vampirism. It the meaning of AFI's song "Red Hat"

The Linux computer software is called "RedHat" because its creator Marc Ewing wore a red hat.
Jay-Z "What's Free"

“No redhat, don’t Michael and Prince me and Ye
They separate you when you got Michael and Prince’s DNA"

AFI's song "RedHat"

"Can’t remember days, the days we posses, only the day she left.

I see her in the crucifix, my mind begins to slip. My love had fallen right to a T.

Then I close my eyes and the tears begin to run, the nightmare has just begun.
redhat by Kingdragonfly July 8, 2019
Cheap ass Chinese knockoffs of Honda ATVs (four wheelers).
My Redcat is not as fast as your TRX450, but at least I was able to buy three of them.
redcat by danthemanwithaplan July 30, 2008

redcat wine 

Great tasting wine that comes from Hazlitt Vineyards Winery near Seneca Lake goes great with pizza, burgers, and sex!
1. Dude I drank an entire bottle of redcat wine, then threw my keys at Courtney!

2. Wow man I drank an entire bottle of redcat wine last night, Courtney ended up leaving a large "love stain" on the futon.
redcat wine by M. Crim June 13, 2008
A fervent supporter of Donald Trump. Redhats typically reject all reputable news sources as "lame stream media" and only believe what they hear from chain emails, Trump himself, and fake news articles on Facebook.

Typically incoherent and bigoted, redhats believe they can win any argument by repeatedly shouting "snowflake" and contesting basic facts.

Named after the infamous "Make America Great Again" headwear, on the pattern of brownshirt.
Don't make racist jokes, Dad, you sound like a goddamn redhat.
Redhat by Nameless_Steve December 6, 2016
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Take the big pirogue, I saw a huge swamp dog out there earlier.
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Throat Sweats 

The feeling and build up in your mouth/throat of saliva that sometimes accompanies nausea.
Oh man those burritos gave me the throat sweats, I hope I don’t have food poisoning.
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Person 2:......
Person 3: O no u got aired!
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piddlefart

Instead of doing my homework, I decided to piddlefart around for two hours.
piddlefart by Rene April 25, 2005
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anyone who succeeds in disgracing/over indulging themselves in the throws of clubland
28 hours and 4 clubs later, gurning for england but still refusing to go home - a total wrongun!!
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square grouper

Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."
square grouper by slipsheet November 6, 2004
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