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arrest-me-red en · ADJ

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Etymology

Suggesting that vehicles painted bright red are more likely to attract the attention of law enforcement.

Meanings

1. (humorous, of a motor vehicle) Of a bright red colour.
   • Since buying the town house on the other side of the clinic, he had enjoyed that rarest of New York rarities, an honest-to-goodness private garage, and he had celebrated by buying a brand-new arrest-me-red Ferrari. 1990, Judith Gould, Never Too Rich, New York, N. Y.: Penguin Group, published November 1991, →ISBN, page 235:

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