Red Guard

noun

1. a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.

Red Guard

noun

1. a member of a Chinese youth movement that attempted to effect the Cultural Revolution (1965–71)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Red Guard¹

1965–70; translation of Chinese hóng wèibīng

Example Sentences

Her father and my father worked together in the university since 50s until they retired … Ping Fu was also a Red Guard herself!

From The Daily Beast

They fooled the Red Guard, and fooled themselves into believing they had forgotten about it.

From The Daily Beast

The Red Guard fired without warning, something that never before happened, even in the time of Czarism.

From Project Gutenberg

Then the hands of the red guard closed about him before he could struggle to his feet.

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The American officer addressed the Red Guard commandant as a recognised officer of equal military standing.

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If the Red Guard had attacked the end near the zone their tactics would have been discovered at once.

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But the railway officials had other views, and there was no Red Guard to overrule them.

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