red guard

From red +‎ guard.

red guard (plural red guards)

1. A member of any of several organizations known as Red Guards or Red Guard.

   Synonym: hongweibing (from Mandarin Chinese)

   • 2011, Henry Kissinger, On China‎^[1], New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 194:

     In Beijing, Red Guard assaults destroyed 4,922 of the capital’s 6,843 designated “places of cultural or historical interest.” The Forbidden City itself was reportedly saved only by Zhou Enlai’s personal intervention.

• Red Guards on Wikipedia.Wikipedia