red light

red light (plural red lights)

1. A warning light, especially as a traffic signal indicating ‘stop’.

   We ran three red lights on the way to the hospital.

2. A sign of a brothel.
   • 1978, Sting, Roxanne (song)

     Roxanne, you don't have to put on your red light.

3. (idiomatic) Denial to proceed; a ruling out of any possibility.

• get the red light
• red-light district
• run a red light

• green light

• third leg

From English red-light district.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛd lajt/

red light m (plural red lights)

1. (Canada) red-light district

• (red-light district): quartier chaud