English

Noun

redskirt ‎(plural redskirts)

1. (fiction, rare) An unimportant or expendable female character, especially one introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril faced by important characters.
   • 2007 February 10, Marc Goodman, “Re: Response to Steven Pinker's 'The Mystery of Consciousness'”, in alt.religion.kibology, Usenet:

     Wasn't there that episode where the aliens turned everyone into little blocks of styrofoam, and one of the aliens turned a redskirt and a redshirt into cubes and crumbled one of them? And then Scotty got really drunk. I seem to recall that the redskirt bought it that time.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:redskirt.

See also

• redshirt