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Red-Handed
Webster's Dictionary
(a. / adv.) Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; - said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Red-Handed'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/red-handed.html. 1828.