Usually means: Accusing someone of being communist.
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  1. red-baiting: Merriam-Webster
  2. Red-baiting, red-baiting: Wordnik
  3. red-baiting: Wiktionary
  4. Red-baiting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (red-baiting)

noun:  (US, sometimes Philippines) The (ad hominem) practice of accusing someone of being a communist, socialist or anarchist with the intention of discrediting their political views.

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