"red under the bed" meaning in All languages combined

See red under the bed on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: En-au-red under the bed.ogg [Australia] Forms: reds under the bed [plural], reds under the beds [plural]
Etymology: From red (meaning communist) and the traditional child's fear of a monster lurking under the bed. Head templates: {{en-noun|reds under the bed|reds under the beds}} red under the bed (plural reds under the bed or reds under the beds)
  1. (slang) An insidious communist presence; a communist who has infiltrated capitalist society. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-red_under_the_bed-en-noun-L8f7Bs5- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for red under the bed meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "From red (meaning communist) and the traditional child's fear of a monster lurking under the bed.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "reds under the bed",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reds under the beds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "reds under the bed",
        "2": "reds under the beds"
      },
      "expansion": "red under the bed (plural reds under the bed or reds under the beds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An insidious communist presence; a communist who has infiltrated capitalist society."
      ],
      "id": "en-red_under_the_bed-en-noun-L8f7Bs5-",
      "links": [
        [
          "insidious",
          "insidious"
        ],
        [
          "communist",
          "communist"
        ],
        [
          "presence",
          "presence"
        ],
        [
          "infiltrate",
          "infiltrate"
        ],
        [
          "capitalist",
          "capitalist"
        ],
        [
          "society",
          "society"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) An insidious communist presence; a communist who has infiltrated capitalist society."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-red under the bed.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/En-au-red_under_the_bed.ogg/En-au-red_under_the_bed.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/En-au-red_under_the_bed.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "red under the bed"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From red (meaning communist) and the traditional child's fear of a monster lurking under the bed.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "reds under the bed",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reds under the beds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "reds under the bed",
        "2": "reds under the beds"
      },
      "expansion": "red under the bed (plural reds under the bed or reds under the beds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with audio links"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An insidious communist presence; a communist who has infiltrated capitalist society."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "insidious",
          "insidious"
        ],
        [
          "communist",
          "communist"
        ],
        [
          "presence",
          "presence"
        ],
        [
          "infiltrate",
          "infiltrate"
        ],
        [
          "capitalist",
          "capitalist"
        ],
        [
          "society",
          "society"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) An insidious communist presence; a communist who has infiltrated capitalist society."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-red under the bed.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/En-au-red_under_the_bed.ogg/En-au-red_under_the_bed.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/En-au-red_under_the_bed.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "red under the bed"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.