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
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Her brothers are both redheads.
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Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Romeo is a lanky boyish redhead (Niall Cunningham).
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2025
And then the other girl, the redhead [Maitland] ...
—Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Susan had found Teresa and neutralized the redhead’s would-be rapist/gun runner with a bullet to his frank-and-beans, while Villanueva nearly met his match in one of the gun-running goons.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Redhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/redhead. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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redhead
noun
red·head
-ˌhed 
: a person having red hair
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