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red-handed definition

red·-handed (red′han′did)

adverb

  1. while committing a crime or doing some wrong
  2. in an undeniably incriminating or compromising situation

Etymology: < the notion of the hands covered with a victim's blood

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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