1
: cheap whiskey
2
: the phenomenon of a subject's eyes appearing red in a color photograph taken with a flash
3
: a late-night or overnight flight
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Tattle, a junior, now with 12 goals, had to travel home to Vancouver for a family matter this week, returning on a red-eye flight, landing at JFK early Friday.
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2025
Fittingly, one of the heroines, Dreux (Keke Palmer), works the red-eye shift at the Norms restaurant on La Cienega.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Also in March, Southwest Airlines will begin offering daily red-eye service from Sacramento to Baltimore, company spokesman Chris Perry previously told The Bee.
—Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 14 Jan. 2025
Yes, that’s the same Ben Brown who practiced twice with the Patriots after taking a red-eye flight from Las Vegas to Boston on Wednesday night and was officially signed off the Raiders’ practice squad Thursday afternoon.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 14 Oct. 2024
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2025
Fittingly, one of the heroines, Dreux (Keke Palmer), works the red-eye shift at the Norms restaurant on La Cienega.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Also in March, Southwest Airlines will begin offering daily red-eye service from Sacramento to Baltimore, company spokesman Chris Perry previously told The Bee.
—Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 14 Jan. 2025
Yes, that’s the same Ben Brown who practiced twice with the Patriots after taking a red-eye flight from Las Vegas to Boston on Wednesday night and was officially signed off the Raiders’ practice squad Thursday afternoon.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 14 Oct. 2024
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“Red-eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/red-eye. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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