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redshirt definition

☆ red·shirt (red′s̸hʉrt′)

transitive verb

Slang to withdraw (a player) from a varsity team for a year so that the player will be eligible for athletics an extra year later

Etymology: from the traditional red shirts worn by the scrimmage team, with whom such players may continue to practice

noun

such a player

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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