1
: a person having red hair
2
: a North American duck (Aythya americana) resembling the related canvasback but having a shorter bill with a black tip and in the male a brighter reddish head
Examples of redhead in a Sentence
Her brothers are both redheads.
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This time, the sports bar is endorsing the move to bench quarterback Bryce Young and put in Andy Dalton (who is, as the message suggests, a redhead).
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Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, the titular web-slinger goes up against the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) — whose evil cackle will haunt you in your dreams — and kisses a certain redhead upside down.
—Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2024
This doesn’t simply mean sticking to cool colours for redheads, or pinks and reds for dark undertones.
—Ebony-Renee Baker, refinery29.com, 15 May 2024
But Mostafa, the redhead, still wakes up in the middle of the night, crying and pointing at something his parents cannot see.
—Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
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Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, the titular web-slinger goes up against the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) — whose evil cackle will haunt you in your dreams — and kisses a certain redhead upside down.
—Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2024
This doesn’t simply mean sticking to cool colours for redheads, or pinks and reds for dark undertones.
—Ebony-Renee Baker, refinery29.com, 15 May 2024
But Mostafa, the redhead, still wakes up in the middle of the night, crying and pointing at something his parents cannot see.
—Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
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“Redhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/redhead. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
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redhead
noun
red·head
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: a person having red hair
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