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red-flaggy en · ADJ

Etymology

From red flag + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal, rare) Exhibiting or characterized by red flags (signs or signals that something is wrong).
   • It's the kind of glow that doesn't feel strange or weird or misguided or red-flaggy. Just a glow. Yes, I'm still nervous as hell, but I know I'm moving in the right direction, no matter what happens. 2014, Patience Bloom, Romance Is My Day Job: A Memoir of Finding Love at Last, New York, NY: Penguin Group, →ISBN, page unknown:
   • You get so swept up by charm and great conversation that you might literally ignore their "maybe-sorta-girlfriend" or the fact that they say stuff like "I'm not really into relationships." It's like they can utter the most red-flaggy, run-for-the-hills sentence straight to your face, but as long as they're funny and cute, it'll filter out into "I'm The One." 2019 May 23, Julia Pugachevsky, “The Sh*tty People You Keep Dating, Based on Your Sign”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 09 May 2020:
   • If you never show up at her house and are always dragging her to yours, they probably are pretty suspicious of you. Nothing is more red-flaggy than someone who doesn’t make an effort to get to know their partner’s friends. 2018 April 18, Sophia Benoit, “You Might Be Guilty of This Dating Red Flag”, in GQ:

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