redhead

nounattested in dialogue

//ˈɹɛdˌhɛd//

A person with red hair.

noun

1
A person with red hair.
I like redheads. Their mouths are like a drop of strawberry jam in a glass of milk.
2
A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.
3
A kind of milkweed (Asclepia curassavica), with red flowers, formerly used in medicine.
4
Chinese red-headed centipede (Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans)
5
Red-headed bunting (Emberiza bruniceps).
6
Red-headed titi (Callicebus regulus).
7
Red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus).
8
informalRed-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus).
9
A kind of 800-watt lamp.
Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.

Etymology

Bahuvrihi compound of red + head.

Forms

plural: redheads

Reddy · A member of a Telugu caste, mostly from Andhra Pradesh and…redeem · To recover ownership of something by buying it back.redemption · The act of redeeming or something redeemed.

redhead · A person with red hair.

Redhead · A surname.redneck · A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United…redo · To do again.

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