"redskirt" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "red + skirt. Patterned after redshirt, which derived from the tendency for male security officers, who wore red shirts, to die on episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. Female crew members wore minidresses, but only one red-uniformed female character was killed during the series' run, in the episode \"By Any Other Name.\"",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "(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."
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