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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"
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
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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