Definition of "red-eye" in английский

noun

1. (countable) Any of various animals that have red eyes.

2. (countable) Types of beverages or sauces.

3. (countable, US, aviation, travel, colloquial, also attributively) An overnight airplane flight or train trip.

   • I waited too late to book my holiday flight, so I had to take the red-eye.

4. (countable, uncountable, medicine) Redness of the conjunctiva; especially when caused by conjunctivitis (pink-eye).

5. (countable, uncountable, photography) 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.

verb

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