Red Guard
noun
a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
Origin of Red Guard
1965–70; translation of Chinese
hóng wèibīng
British Dictionary definitions for red guards
Red Guard
noun
a member of a Chinese youth movement that attempted to effect the Cultural Revolution (1965–71)
Cultural definitions for red guards
Red Guards
Loosely organized bands of militant communists who followed Mao Zedong in attacking conservative or bourgeois elements in China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the 1960s.