What is Red Card?
1.
Fictional card you "throw down" to your friends to initiate a no questions asked go out and get bombed no matter what kind of night. Typically you get one per year within a group of friends.
I don't care if its Tuesday and everyone has 9 a.m. class, my girlfriend just broke up with me, I'm throwing down a Red Card. Bust out the Jager!
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2.
A statement used as an indication that another's action or statement immediately preceeding it sharply goes against the social norms of the group. The act must be of such an extreme nature as to cause hysterical disbelief or revulsion among members of the group. Obviously this is much stronger than calling a yellow card on someone.
"Yeah, she was so hot, I was ready to jump all over that."
"Dude, that's my sister, and she's only 15- Red Card!"
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3.
A membership card for the union, Industrial Workers of the World
"Does that guy have a red card?
"Nope, he still thinks that politicians will change things.
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