red-eye
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/red"uy'/, n.
1. the condition of having bloodshot eyes, as from eyestrain or lack of sleep.
2. Also,
red eye, redeye.
Informal. a commercial airline flight between two distant points that departs late at night and arrives early in the morning.
4. an unwanted photographic effect in which a person's iris appears to be red: caused by the reflection of a flashbulb off the blood vessels of the retina.
adj.
5. Also,
redeye.
Informal. of or indicating a long-
distance flight that leaves late at night: the red-eye special from New York to Los Angeles.
[1965-70, for def. 2]
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