redbait

verb

1. (US, transitive)To attack by denouncing as a Communist.

   “While Jack Kennedy thrived in the 1950s as a sex-crazed, drug-dependent, ailment-ridden party-boy politician, Bobby, the family’s complicated sourpuss, hooked up with the redbaiting Joe McCarthy, then spun off as a crusading and corners-cutting scourge of labor corruption.”

noun

1. A fish, Emmelichthys nitidus
2. Pyura stolonifera, an ascidian often used as bait by anglers.