Noun
redcoat (plural redcoats)
- A British soldier, especially during the American Revolution.
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad:
- The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread, / And out we troop to see: / A single redcoat turns his head, / He turns and looks at me.
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon;
- And out o' the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon,
- When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor,
- A red-coat troop came marching—
- Marching—marching—
- King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door.
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad:
- A member of the entertainment staff at Butlin's holiday camps in the United Kingdom, who wear red blazers.
- Mirror News 16 May 13. ↗The series ran from 1980 until 1988, and won a BAFTA for Best Comedy Series in 1984. It was based on Perry’s experiences working as a Redcoat in Butlins.
- (slang) A fox.
- 1947, Pennsylvania Game News (volumes 18-19, page 30)
- Hurriedly he made his way around one end of the pond to the spot where he had first sighted the redcoat.
- 1947, Pennsylvania Game News (volumes 18-19, page 30)
- (British soldier) lobsterback
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