English Dictionary

redskirt

noun

(fiction, rare) An unimportant or expendable female character, especially one introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril faced by important characters.

She wore a red skirt to the party.

意味（1）

(fiction, rare) An unimportant or expendable female character, especially one introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril faced by important characters.

Wasn't there that episode where the aliens turned everyone into little blocks of styrofoam, and one of the aliens turned a redskirt and a redshirt into cubes and crumbled one of them? And then Scotty got really drunk. I seem to recall that the redskirt bought it that time.