Usually means: Flight departing late, arriving early.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word red-eye:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. red-eye: Merriam-Webster
  2. red-eye: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. red-eye: Collins English Dictionary
  4. red-eye: Vocabulary.com
  5. Red-Eye, Red-eye, red-eye: Wordnik
  6. red-eye: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. red-eye: Wiktionary
  8. red-eye: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. red-eye: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. red-eye: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. red-eye: Dictionary.com
  12. red-eye: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. red-eye: Rhymezone
  14. red-eye: FreeDictionary.org
  15. red-eye: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. red-eye: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. red-eye: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. red-eye: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. red-eye, red-eye, red-eye: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See red-eyes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) Any of various animals that have red eyes.
noun:  The common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus), a freshwater fish.
noun:  Any of various grass-skippers or hesperiid butterflies of the genus Matapa.
noun:  The red-eyed treefrog (Agalychnis callidryas), which is native to neotropical rainforests.
noun:  (Australia) A species of cicada, Psaltoda moerens, native to eastern Australia.
noun:  (Canada, US) The red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus), a small American songbird.
noun:  (South Africa, US) Any of various round herrings of the genus Etrumeus.
noun:  (US) 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).
noun:  (US) Any of various sunfishes of the family Centrarchidae, especially the redeye bass (Micropterus coosae) or the rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris).
noun:  The redeye tetra (Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae), a freshwater fish, commonly kept in aquariums, native to South America.
noun:  (countable) Types of beverages or sauces.
noun:  A drink made by adding a shot of espresso to a cup of coffee.
noun:  (Canada, regional) A drink consisting of beer with tomato juice.
noun:  (US, slang) A strong but poor-quality whiskey.
noun:  (countable, US, aviation, travel, colloquial, also attributively) An overnight airplane flight or train trip.
noun:  (countable, uncountable, medicine) Redness of the conjunctiva; especially when caused by conjunctivitis (pink-eye).
noun:  (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:  (intransitive, aviation, travel, colloquial) Often followed by it: to travel on a red-eye (“an overnight airplane flight”).
noun:  Ellipsis of red-eye gravy. [(cooking) A thin sauce found in Southern US cuisine, made from the drippings of pan-fried country ham mixed with black coffee.]

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