Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A porter, usually in a railroad station.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the extract.
- noun The goldfinch, Carduelis elegans, more fully called
King Harry redcap . - noun A variety of the domestic hen, of English origin.
- noun A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl) The European goldfinch.
- noun Scot. A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK A member of the Royal Military Police a unit in the British army.
- noun UK Archaic name for the
goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis). - noun UK, folklore A type of evil
goblin orimp - noun A breed of poultry. See
red cap .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the military police in Britain
- noun a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station
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Examples
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LAWRENCE: But his redcap is the first thing people see.
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Inside the Demon Heart, Magbidion was saying good night to the last customer of the evening, a redcap who works over at the Iversonian.
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But she had reassured herself that Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard – known to everyone as "Pritch" – was a military policeman, a redcap.
'My son was shot by a British sniper, now all I want is the truth'
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Inside the Demon Heart, Magbidion was saying good night to the last customer of the evening, a redcap who works over at the Iversonian.
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Another young redcap took a look at the contraption and proclaimed that Paige looked like “a walking satchel tree.”
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Another young redcap took a look at the contraption and proclaimed that Paige looked like “a walking satchel tree.”
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Another young redcap took a look at the contraption and proclaimed that Paige looked like “a walking satchel tree.”
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Another dumb journalist who will probably confuse a Derbyshire redcap with a Scots dumpy.
The Duchess of Devonshire: 'When you are very old, you cry over some things, but not a lot'
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Another young redcap took a look at the contraption and proclaimed that Paige looked like “a walking satchel tree.”
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Time enough for people to find out you travel with a personal redcap for all the baggage.
bilby commented on the word redcap
"He got thoroughly nasty, I paid the bill and left him asking he old man to play 'When the Poppies Bloom Again'. I for one didn't want to see him again till they did. I walk back in the cool dark evening, and just my luck, a jeep with two redcaps pulls up."
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.'
April 18, 2009