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What is going red?

A phrase adopted by Australian comedian Adam Hills, usually used as an expression of affirmation or encouragement.

It was coined during a 1999 stand-up performance in Melbourne, Australia. Hills had invited an audience member on stage to yell out his own name; instead, the man shouted "go you big red fire engine!" The phrase quickly became an audience chant, and Hills subsequently used it as an affirmative mantra, eventually basing a stand-up show around it in 2001.

"Go you big red fire engine!" came to be regarded as a general expression of encouragement, and with Hills' urging it began to weasel its way into pop culture: it ended up appearing in a Detroit newspaper and on a Swedish website, as well as being yelled out in the Australian Federal Parliament by then-Senator Natasha Stott Despoja.

"The only way I could get through every night (of a bad gig) was, as I walked on, to just go, 'go you big red fire engine!' I could face anything after saying that!" - Adam Hills, "Go You Big Red Fire Engine" (2001)

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going red - video


Going red - what is it?

The act of releasing blood from one's asshole either as a result of illness or as a result of violent consensual or nonconsensual ass sex word Cornhole.

In Ft Levenworth, Kansas, they all go big red because there's so much man love goin' on out there.

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What does "going red" mean?

verb. The act of drinking only vodka cranberries with the intent of getting J-Bones

Yo did you SEE J-Bones?
Yeah he must be going red.

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Going red - what does it mean?

Anxiety brought on by increased sex drive during menstruation.

"I can't come into work today, I'm Going Red Kitty!"

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Going red - meaning

Becoming a communist.

Hey man, fuck this capitalist shit, I'm going red.

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