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red-eye

[ red-ahy ]

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noun

the condition of having bloodshot eyes, as from eyestrain or lack of sleep.
Also red eye, . Informal. a commercial airline flight between two distant points that departs late at night and arrives early in the morning.
redeye ( def 3 ).
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.

Also . Informal. of or indicating a long-distance flight that leaves late at night:
the red-eye special from New York to Los Angeles.

red eye

photog an undesirable effect that sometimes appears in flashlight portraits when light from the flash enters the eye and is reflected from the retina on to the film, producing a red colour

red-eye

informal.
1. an aeroplane flight leaving late at night or arriving early in the morning
2. ( as modifier )
  a red-eye flight

Origin of red-eye¹

She calls her new post “a red-eye job, given our time difference and the predilection for crisis.”

And, I appreciate the reciprocation of warm nuts and having a decent five hours sleep when I take a red-eye.

Pierre turned round and could discern its red eye dim through the fog.

It was Red-Eye, swaggering down the centre of the run-way and scowling fiercely with his inflamed eyes.

Red-Eye paid no further attention to me, and I was at liberty to whimper and sob to my heart's content.

As their approval and acclamation arose on the air, Red-Eye snarled down at them, and on the instant they were subdued to silence.

Red-Eye sprang out from the wall and finished the last twenty feet through the air.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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