red guard

red +‎ guard

red guard (plural red guards)

1. A member of any of several organizations known as Red Guards or Red Guard.

   What on Earth could be next, the Chinese red guard-style maltreatment of language learners and yodelers?

   • 2011, Henry Kissinger, On China‎, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 194:

     In Beijing, Red Guard assaults destroyed 4,922 of the capital’s 6,843 designated “places of cultural or historical interest.” The Forbidden City itself was reportedly saved only by Zhou Enlai’s personal intervention.

• (from Mandarin Chinese) hongweibing, hungweiping