red-baitとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

redbait (三人称単数 現在形 redbaits, 現在分詞 redbaiting, 過去形および過去分詞形 redbaited)

1. (US, transitive) To attack by denouncing as a Communist.
   • 2007 September 9, David Corn, “Collision Course”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     While Jack Kennedy thrived in the 1950s as a sex-crazed, drug-dependent, ailment-ridden party-boy politician, Bobby, the family’s complicated sourpuss, hooked up with the redbaiting Joe McCarthy, then spun off as a crusading and corners-cutting scourge of labor corruption.