Definition of Red-eye

1. Verb. Travel on an overnight flight. "The candidate red-eyed from California to the East Coast the night before the election to give a last stump speech"

Category relationships: Air, Air Travel, Aviation
Generic synonyms: Fly

Definition of Red-eye

1. Adjective. (informal) Overnight: said of airplane flights. ¹

2. Noun. (informal) An overnight airplane flight. ¹

3. Noun. The rudd. ¹

4. Noun. The redfish ¹

5. Noun. (US dialect) The goggle-eye, or fresh-water rock bass. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Red-eye

red-blooded
red-breasted merganser
red-breasted nuthatch
red-breasted sapsucker
red-breasted snipe
red-brick
red-card
red-carpet
red-carpet(a)
red-coated
red-crested pochard
red-crested pochards
red-deer
red-eared slider
red-eared sliders
red-eye (current term)
red-eyed vireo
red-faced
red-faced cormorant
red-flowered silky oak
red-green color blindness
red-green colour blindness
red-green dichromacy
red-gum
red-haired
red-handed
red-headed
red-header
red-hot poker

Literary usage of Red-eye

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-pigs and Rats by William Ernest Castle, Sewall Wright (1916)
"THE red-eye FACTOR. The experiments with dilution have become closely associated with experiments with certain imported South American stocks (lea, ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"Red Eye ; color of pod, blue-black. Purple Hull Crowder ; color of pod, purplish black. Lilac Red Pod ; color of pod, reddish purple. ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1868)
"... common in lakes, slow rivers, fens, &c., in many parts of Europe and in England. It much resembles its congener the Roach (qv), but ia shorter red-eye, ..."

4. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"The song of the bird he considers almost identical with that of the red-eye. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., describes the song as heard at ..."

5. The Flower Garden: Or, Breck's Book of Flowers ; in which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1859)
"Light-red, with dark-red eye, (fine). Afro purpurea. — Purple-red. ... Red, with deep-red eye. Break's Perfection. — White, striped with red, red eye. ..."

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