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Definition of in the red
in the red
adjective
- in debt.
I am in the red.
His business is in the red.
Last edited on May 06 2013. Submitted by Sandin on Jan 22 1999.
notes
- See also in the black.
Last edited on Aug 16 2015. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 16 2015.
origin
- In accounting, red ink is used to highlight negative values.
Last edited on Oct 15 2011. Submitted by Sandin on Jan 22 1999.
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Other terms relating to 'in': | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: involving everyone or everything. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: no chance. | |
| Definitions include: something easy. | |
| Definitions include: at some time before the present. | |
| Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing. | |
| Definitions include: included. | |
| Definitions include: clitoris. | |
| Definitions include: to intrude. | |
| Definitions include: See barge in. | |
| Definitions include: To beat someone up, inflict head injury | |
| Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time." | |
Other terms relating to 'red': | |
| Definitions include: menstrual period. | |
| Definitions include: angry, pissed off | |
| Definitions include: an emergency situation. | |
| Definitions include: a strain of marijuana | |
| Definitions include: see Aunt Flo and cousin Red. | |
| Definitions include: to give oral sex to a woman on her period, for the first time. | |
| Definitions include: something that gets on your nerves or bugs you. | |
| Definitions include: interjection of surprise, alarm, etc. | |
| Definitions include: to have a great time around town. | |
| Definitions include: a strain of marijuana | |
| Definitions include: figuratively, a very small amount. | |
| Definitions include: mean; spiteful; cruel. | |
| Definitions include: a person who is so intense in his/her competitive spirit that they are constantly on the verge of boiling over. | |
| Definitions include: emergency, or a situation that needs an urgent response. | |
| Definitions include: a very small amount of money. | |
Other terms relating to 'the': | |
| Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone. | |
| Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving. | |
| Definitions include: interrogation. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: information. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a good estimate. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: inclusive. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing. | |
| Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular. | |
| Definitions include: of a male, to urinate. | |
| Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
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