Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unmarked area between the 20-yard-line and the goal line at either end of the field, used especially in evaluating a team's ability to exploit or thwart scoring situations.
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- noun American football The area extending twenty yards from the
end zone , where ateam in possession of the ball is expected to score. - noun California An area of a street where the curb has been painted
red , indicating that stopping, standing or parking is prohibited at that spot (except, in some places, for buses).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the association of the color red with danger or situations requiring attention.]
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Even before students returned to campus, advocacy groups were expressing heightened concern about the “red zone,” the period from August to late November when roughly 50 percent of sexual assaults occur at colleges during any given year.
A ‘double red zone’: Alarms raised at many universities over sexual assault reports Nadra Nittle 2021
plethora commented on the word red zone
See purple zone.
July 23, 2008