red-carpet
adj1
Ostentatiously special; VIP
- Related terms
- red carpet
red carpet
nounalso spelled red-carpet1
A strip of red carpet that is laid for a VIP to walk on.
- 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 […]2012, Simon Packham, The Bex Factor:
- 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.2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London):
2
Broadly, Figuratively VIP treatment.
- Derived terms
- red-carpetful, roll out the red carpet