noun: (US, collegiate sports) An athlete who spends a year not participating in official athletic activities, but does not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
verb: (US, collegiate sports) To place an athlete in a status wherein the athlete will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities, but will not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
verb: (US, collegiate sports) To take on a status wherein one will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities.
verb: (US) To hold a child out of kindergarten for one year in the hope that the child will do better academically and socially.
noun: (fiction, science fiction) An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.
noun: (US navy) A person responsible for loading and unloading weapons, artillery, and equipment from aircraft.
noun: Alternative form of Red Shirt [A member of the UDD (National United Front for Democracy), supporters of Prime Minister Shinawatra, (and subsequently Abhisit Vejajiva) in the conflict in Thailand after the 2006 coup d'etat.]
