red scare

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   a period of general fear of communists

   Broaderpanic

Questions about red scare

What does red scare mean?

red scare means "a period of general fear of communists".

Is red scare a common word?

red scare is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.