little red riding hood

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   a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother

   Broaderfictional character

Questions about little red riding hood

What does little red riding hood mean?

little red riding hood means "a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother".

Is little red riding hood a common word?

little red riding hood is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.