red carpet

See also: red-carpet

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red carpet (plural red carpets)

  1. A strip of red carpet that is laid for a VIP to walk on.
    • 2012, Simon Packham, The Bex Factor:
      I've been gunged on children's TV, hung out with some actors off that soap Dad used to watch, done a photoshoot for a major highstreet fashion outlet and now here we are on the red carpet, outside the cinema in Leicester Square […]
    • 2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London)‎[1]:
      This time, the actor was in uncomfortably touchy-feely form. First he sidled up behind Scarlett Johansson as she posed on the red carpet, kissed her, and slid his hand around her waist.
  2. (figuratively, by extension) VIP treatment.

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