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red-eye

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Noun

  1. Any of various animals that have red eyes: The common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus), a freshwater fish.
  2. Any of various animals that have red eyes: Any of various grass-skippers or hesperiid butterflies of the genus Matapa.
  3. Any of various animals that have red eyes: The red-eyed treefrog (Agalychnis callidryas), which is native to neotropical rainforests.
  4. Any of various animals that have red eyes: A species of cicada, Psaltoda moerens, native to eastern Australia.
  5. Any of various animals that have red eyes: The red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus), a small American songbird.
  6. Any of various animals that have red eyes: Any of various round herrings of the genus Etrumeus.
  7. Any of various animals that have red eyes: Either of two subspecies of the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), a venomous pit viper native to the United States: either the broad-banded copperhead or Texas copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus), or the highland moccasin or northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen).
  8. Any of various animals that have red eyes: Any of various sunfishes of the family Centrarchidae, especially the redeye bass (Micropterus coosae) or the rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris).
  9. Any of various animals that have red eyes: The redeye tetra (Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae), a freshwater fish, commonly kept in aquariums, native to South America.
  10. Types of beverages or sauces: A drink made by adding a shot of espresso to a cup of coffee.
  11. Types of beverages or sauces: A drink consisting of beer with tomato juice.
  12. Types of beverages or sauces: A strong but poor-quality whiskey.
  13. Types of beverages or sauces: Ellipsis of red-eye gravy.
  14. An overnight airplane flight or train trip.
  15. Redness of the conjunctiva; especially when caused by conjunctivitis (pink-eye).
  16. Redness in the eye(s) of someone in a colour photograph, as an unwanted consequence of light from a flash reflecting off blood vessels in the retina.
  17. Alternative form of red-eye.
  18. A cocktail made from ale, tomato juice, and egg, a variation of a Bloody Mary.

Verb

  1. Often followed by it: to travel on a red-eye (“an overnight airplane flight”).

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