redline

redline
redline (v.) "deny loans to certain neighborhoods based on ethnicity," 1973, on notion of lines drawn on maps. Used earlier in reference to insurance company practices (1961) and in World War II military slang in reference to a red line drawn through a soldier's name for some infraction, thus denying his pay.

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