red card

See also: red-card

English

A red card.

Noun

red card (plural red cards)

1. (sports) A card displayed by the referee when a player is sent off for a serious infringement of the rules.

   In the 1994 FIFA World Cup, Argentine player Diego Maradona was given a red card for striking a US player Tab Ramos.

   • 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC‎:

     An off the ball incident led to N'Zogbia confronting Wilshere before leaning his head into the Englishman and giving referee Lee Probert no choice but to show the red card.

2. (colloquial) Any official instructions to vacate an area.

   I hoped to park in the members' area but the attendant showed me the red card.

Coordinate terms

• yellow card
• green card
• blue card

Descendants

• → Japanese: レッドカード (reddo kādo)
• → Korean: 레드카드 (redeukadeu)

Translations

sports: card

Armenian: կարմիր քարտ (karmir kʻart) Basque: txartel gorri Bulgarian: червен картон m (červen karton) Catalan: targeta vermella f Chinese: Mandarin: 紅牌／红牌 (zh) (hóngpái) Cornish: karten rudh f Czech: červená karta f Danish: rødt kort (da) n Dutch: rode kaart Esperanto: ruĝa karto Faroese: reytt kort n Finnish: punainen kortti (fi) French: carton rouge (fr) m, carte rouge f (Belgium) Galician: cartón vermello German: rote Karte f Greek: κόκκινη κάρτα (el) f (kókkini kárta) Hebrew: כרטיס אדום m (kartís adóm) Hungarian: piros lap (hu) Icelandic: rautt spjald n Italian: cartellino rosso m Japanese: レッドカード (ja) (reddo kādo) Korean: 레드카드 (ko) (redeukadeu), 퇴장표 (ko) (toejangpyo) (North Korea) Macedonian: црвен картон m (crven karton) Malay: kad merah (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: rødt kort n Nynorsk: raudt kort n Persian: کارت قرمز (kârt-e qermez) Polish: czerwona kartka (pl) f Portuguese: cartão vermelho m Romanian: cartonaș roșu n Russian: кра́сная ка́рточка (ru) f (krásnaja kártočka) Spanish: tarjeta roja (es) f Swahili: kadi nyekundu Swedish: rött kort (sv) n Turkish: kırmızı kart (tr) Ukrainian: черво́на ка́ртка f (červóna kártka) Vietnamese: thẻ đỏ Yoruba: káàdì pupa

instructions to vacate an area

Finnish: poistumiskehoitus French: carton rouge (fr) m

References

• red card on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “red card”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.