"red shirt" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Anglais]

Forms: red shirts [plural]
  1. Dans une fiction, personnage secondaire destiné à mourir afin que les personnages principaux prennent conscience du danger. Tags: figuratively
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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