Red Carpet. Noun. A red carpet is a strip of carpet in the colour red, which is laid out to welcome VIPs such as dignitaries and celebrities at formal events.

What the fuck? Celebrities are now so hard-up for the red carpet treatment, they're now rolling them out at political debates? This is absurd. It's embarrassing. What's next? Are they going to start rolling out the carpet at the voting booth? The DMV? Do we really need photographic proof that celebrities occasionally fulfill a civic duty?