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Red Guard
noun
- a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
Red Guard
noun
- a member of a Chinese youth movement that attempted to effect the Cultural Revolution (1965–71)
Word History and Origins
Origin of Red Guard1
Example Sentences
The theater was physically a meeting place and soup kitchen for the Red Guard and Black Panthers.
In the late 1960s, the fury of vigilante Red Guard youth prompted Ms. Chen and her husband to send their young son away to live with his grandmother in Shanghai.
In the 1960s, the Black Panthers teamed up with the Red Guard Party to push for better living conditions in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Closely monitoring the event are a pair of Storm Troopers, the ruthless infantry soldiers of the Empire along with a member of the dreaded Red Guard, Emperor Palpatine’s personal security detail.
"I don't want to be part of that team... I don't want to live in a country where we have the Red Guard... We have a Red Guard in this country now."
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