redeye

noun, plural red·eyes, (especially collectively) red·eye for 1, 2.

1. any of several fishes having red eyes, as the rock bass.
2. red-eyed vireo.
3. Also red-eye, red eye. Slang. cheap, strong whiskey.
4. red-eye(def 2).
5. (initial capital letter) Military. a shoulder-launched U.S. Army surface-to-air missile capable of destroying low-flying aircraft.
6. red-eye(def 4).

adjective

7. red-eye.

noun

1. the condition of having bloodshot eyes, as from eyestrain or lack of sleep.
2. Also red eye, redeye. Informal. a commercial airline flight between two distant points that departs late at night and arrives early in the morning.
3. redeye(def 3).
4. an unwanted photographic effect in which a person’s iris appears to be red: caused by the reflection of a flashbulb off the blood vessels of the retina.

adjective

5. Also redeye. Informal. of or indicating a long-distance flight that leaves late at night: the red-eye special from New York to Los Angeles.

noun

1. US slang inferior whiskey
2. Canadian slang a drink incorporating beer and tomato juice
3. another name for rudd

noun

1. informal
   1. an aeroplane flight leaving late at night or arriving early in the morning
   2. (as modifier)a red-eye flight

n.

“airplane flight which deprives travelers of sleep,” 1968, from the red eyes of sleeplessness; earlier as a noun meaning “raw and inferior whiskey” (1819, American English).