red-eyen.

Brit.

/ˈrɛdʌɪ/, U.S.

/ˈrɛdˌaɪ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., eye n.¹

Etymology: < red adj. + eye n.¹ Compare earlier red-eyed adj.With sense 1a compare Dutch roodoog rudd (1599 in Kiliaan as †root-ooghe ), Middle Low German rōtōge , roddōge , denoting either the roach or the rudd (German regional (Low German) rodōg , roddōg , denoting the rudd and various other cyprinid fishes), German Rotauge , denoting the rudd and various other cyprinid fishes (Old High German rōtouga roach); compare also earlier rudd n.¹ With sense 2 compare earlier red-eyed flycatcher n., red-eyed vireo n. at red-eyed adj. Compounds. In sense 6, the drink is probably so called on account of it causing the eyes to become bloodshot or red-rimmed.

I. Literal senses.

a. The rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus erythrophthalmus (rudd)

shallowc1050

rudd1526

red-eyea1672

finscale1677

redtail1740

a1672 F. Willughby Ichthyogr. (1686) Tab. v. 10 Red eye, Belgis, i.e. oculus Coccineus.

a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) ii. 116 Rootaug..The Red-Eye.

1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling 55 The Red-Eye..is very much like a Bream, but thicker.

1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 412 To this second division [sc. Cyprinidæ] belong four British species, the largest of which, the Rudd or Red-eye, is a very common fish in Europe.

1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 May 273/2 The rudd, or red-eye, a beautiful active fish, is very abundant.

1990 R. Minervini et al. in W. L. T. van Densen et al. Managem. Freshwater Fisheries xxv. 295 Red eye or rudd. This species feeds mainly on vegetation. It is considered a poor quality fish and has no market value.

b. U.S. Any of various freshwater sunfishes of the family Centrarchidae; (now esp.) (more fully redeye bass) Micropterus coosae, which has orange fins and is native to parts of the south-eastern United States.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of

red-eye1820

mountain trout1884

goggle-eye1897

1820 Rafinesque in Smithson. Coll. (1877) XIII. ix. i. 20 Red-Eye Sunfish, Icthelis Erythrops.

1877 Jordan in Smithson. Coll. XIII. ix. i. 22 The name ‘Red-Eye’ in the region which this fish is supposed to inhabit is chiefly applied to the Rock-Bass (Ambloplites rupestris).

1909 C. F. Holder & D. S. Jordan Fish Stories 240 Some of these [sunfish] are called blue-gills, dollardee, red-eye, rock-bass, grass-bass.

1935 L. S. Caine Game Fish of South 3 Large-mouthed Black Bass..Redeye.

1976 T. Tryckare Lore of Sportfishing 102 Warmouth Bass... Other common names..redeye [etc.].

2006 S. M. McGinnis Field Guide Freshwater Fishes Calif. (rev. ed.) 330 Redeye Bass was stocked in a number of middle- and low-elevation rivers and streams in the early 1960's.

2. North American. = red-eyed vireo n. at red-eyed adj. Compounds. Also more fully red-eye vireo.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Vireonidae (vireo) > genus Vireo (red-eye)

whip-tom-kelly1756

red-eye1834

1834 W. B. O. Peabody Life A. Wilson 56 Nothing perhaps exceeds the delicious note of the warbling vireo and the red-eye.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 172 The birds sang quite as in our woods,—the red-eye, red-start, veery, wood-pewee, etc.

1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. III. 103/2 Mr. Job..photographed several times a female Red-eye solicitously feeding two voracious young Cowbirds.

1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles II. 252 The red-eye has been called ‘preacher-bird’ because of its unceasing vocal efforts.

1995 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 23 753 (table) Red-eye vireo (Vireo olivaceus).

3. Australian. A black cicada of eastern Australia, Psaltoda moerens, which has red eyes.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae > psaltoda moerens (red-eye)

red-eye1904

1904 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales 586 The Black Cicada or 'Red-Eye' is seldom found in our gardens, but frequents the trunks and branches of the smooth-stemmed Eucalypts.

1925 Illustr. Austral. Encycl. I. 269/1 Well-known species [of cicada] are the Red-eye..and the Floury Miller.., both names well describing the insect's appearance.

1965 Austral. Encycl. II. 380/1 Other well-known cicadas are the red-eye..and the aptly named cherry-nose.

2005 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 3 Feb. (Domain) 14 Black Princes, Floury Bakers and Red Eyes are around in February, so there's still time for a cicada summer.

4. Medicine. Redness (vascular injection) of the conjunctiva of one or both eyes; esp. that resulting from acute conjunctivitis (= pink-eye n.¹ 3).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > conjunctivitis or ophthalmitis > types of

psorophthalmia1585

psorophthalmy1656

xerophthalmia1656

ophthalmia neonatorum1835

photophobophthalmia1842

sun blight1848

sand-blight1852

sandy blight1869

blepharoconjunctivitis1890

pink-eye1897

klieg eyes1923

bung eye1933

shipyard eye1943

red-eye1952

1952 Lancet 8 Nov. 944/2 Red eye & its differential diagnosis.

1978 Jrnl. Internat. Med. Res. 6 141 (heading) Tanderil/chloramphenicol eye ointment in the treatment of the ‘Red Eye’ seen in general practice.

2004 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 28 Mar. a5 The flu was contracted in a mild form of red eye, or conjunctivitis, by a man helping clean up chickens in the second of five barns contaminated.

5. Photography. An unwanted effect in flash photographs whereby the pupils of a subject appear red, caused by light reflected from the blood vessels of the retina, and occurring when the source of the flash is too near the camera lens; frequently attributive. Also (as red eye): an eye that appears red in a photograph for this reason.

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1966 H. Keppler Asahi Pentax Way 240 Highlights in the pupils may show as two glowing red spots... This is the so-called ‘red-eye effect’ typical of on-camera flash technique.

1978 Chicago June 198/2 Pop-out electronic flash lets you stop action in low light. Eliminates ‘red-eye’.

1991 Rolling Stone 28 Nov. 111/4 Novice snapshooters can take crisp photographs, sans red eyes and ghost-white faces.

1995 Which? June 43/2 All the SLRs with a built-in flash, except the Nikon F50, have a red-eye reduction system.

2009 L. Thompson tr. H. Mankell Ital. Shoes ii. 137 Poor-quality coloured pictures from the early 1970s, in the days when everybody had red-eye, and gaped at the photographer like vampires.

II. figurative and in extended use.

6. U.S. slang. Whisky, esp. cheap, poor-quality whisky.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > inferior whisky

red-eye1819

tarantula-juice1861

bug juice1863

Berlin spirit1878

bluestone1880

smoke1904

snakebite1979

1819 J. A. Quitman Diary in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) I. 42 Whiting and I had to treat to ‘red-eye’ or ‘rot-gut’, as whiskey is here called.

1838 Yale Lit. Mag. 3 12 An Indian tribe that..seldom ever passed the prairie except to sell their skins, and purchase ‘red-eye’.

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) (at cited word) I promised the overseer..a demijohn of red-eye if all went straight.

1910 in J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 305 Drink that rot gut, drink that rot gut, Drink that red eye, boys.

1957 J. Steinbeck Short Reign of Pippin IV 69 Serving red-eye in shot-glasses.

1976 Observer 5 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 18 (advt.) Most of the liquor to be had [in New Orleans] at that time [sc. 1865] was known as ‘redeye’. Because that's what it did.

2003 Independent 20 Nov. (Review section) 7/2 Duke Philip was real welcoming also... ‘I know you blasted Yanks... Would you care for a shot of red-eye before dinner?’

7. U.S. Military slang. Tomato ketchup. Now rare.

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > ketchup > tomato ketchup

tomato ketchup1801

tomato catsup1845

tomato sauce1911

red lead1917

red-eye1923

1923 G. McKnight Eng. Words 56 Red eye for ‘catsup’.

1947 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Aug. 10/3 Red-Eye..that great disguise, ketchup.

1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 423/2 Redeye.., ketchup. W.W.I and W.W.II Armed Forces use.

8. Canadian regional (western). A drink made from beer and tomato juice.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > mixed drinks of ale or beer > [noun]

three-threads1698

pap-in1748

half-and-half1756

porter cup1790

shandygaff1853

mixed ale1864

cooper1871

black and tan1881

four-half1884

mother-in-law1884

shandy1888

smiler1892

mild-and-bitter1933

red-eye1960

1960 Chicago Sunday Tribune 2 Oct. v. 7/2 Called a Red Eye in Calgary.., it is a mixture of tomato juice and beer.

1975 ‘S. Marlowe’ Cawthorn Jrnls. (1976) xiii. 107 ‘I'll have a redeye,’ Lester told the barman, who mixed tomato juice and beer for him, half and half.

1985 C. B. Wine Across Table 116 Nor can they know the lilting joy of a gulp of beer and tomato juice, the popular Red-eye.

2004 K. Colburn & R. Sorensen So You want to be Canad. 74 9 am Order a Calgary Red Eye.

9. U.S. colloquial. A flight on which a passenger cannot expect to get much sleep because of the time of departure or arrival, esp. an overnight flight on a west-to-east route. Frequently attributive.

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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [adjective] > type of flight or service

non-scheduled1855

charter1922

standby1946

walk-on1959

red-eye1964

1964 N.Y. Times 3 June 30/4 During the long California campaign, Mr. Goldwater has many times flown the same night flight to Washington. He calls it the ‘red-eye special’.

1972 ‘J. Lange’ Binary 19 Phelps had brought them out to California on a red-eye flight, let them sleep a few hours, then dragged them up for a meeting.

1984 E. Hoagland Up Black to Chalkyitsik in Balancing Acts (1992) 94 The flight to Seattle was an ordinary red-eye, with sleepy yuppies loosening their ties.

2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Nov. (Central ed.) w13/1 Now the airlines are adding red-eyes to cities not typically associated with overnight flights.

Compounds

red-eye gravy n. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) gravy made by adding liquid (esp. coffee) to the drippings from cooked ham or other cured meat; cf. earlier red gravy n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1f(c)(i). [Probably so called on account of its appearance, before the grease and liquid are combined.]

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > gravy > [noun] > types of

made gravy1730

jus1847

red gravy1887

au jus1903

red-eye gravy1931

sambar1957

1931 San Antonio (Texas) Light 28 Apr. 10 a/7 (advt.) Ham Steak A thick, tender, flavory cut..fried in the pan..served with red-eye gravy and steamed rice.

1943 Los Angeles Times 12 May i. 8/1 We talked about them and about Vanderbilt football teams and how good it would be to have another breakfast of Tennessee ham, grits, red-eye gravy and fried sweet potatoes.

1959 Washington Post 29 Oct. d5/1 To the folks in the hominy grits and red-eye gravy belt there is only one game this week—Louisiana State vs. Mississippi.

1977 Time 24 Oct. 27/2 Dennis serves up his baked ham and red-eye gravy, grits, green beans, carrots, buttermilk biscuits and coffee.

2004 J. McCoy Wanted: One Perfect Man ii. 29 Tomas is makin' his special baked ham and mashed potatoes with redeye gravy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	red-eye
释义	red-eyen. Brit. /ˈrɛdʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌaɪ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., eye n.¹ Etymology: < red adj. + eye n.¹ Compare earlier red-eyed adj.With sense 1a compare Dutch roodoog rudd (1599 in Kiliaan as †root-ooghe ), Middle Low German rōtōge , roddōge , denoting either the roach or the rudd (German regional (Low German) rodōg , roddōg , denoting the rudd and various other cyprinid fishes), German Rotauge , denoting the rudd and various other cyprinid fishes (Old High German rōtouga roach); compare also earlier rudd n.¹ With sense 2 compare earlier red-eyed flycatcher n., red-eyed vireo n. at red-eyed adj. Compounds. In sense 6, the drink is probably so called on account of it causing the eyes to become bloodshot or red-rimmed. I. Literal senses. 1. a. The rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus erythrophthalmus (rudd) shallowc1050 rudd1526 red-eyea1672 finscale1677 redtail1740 a1672 F. Willughby Ichthyogr. (1686) Tab. v. 10 Red eye, Belgis, i.e. oculus Coccineus. a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) ii. 116 Rootaug..The Red-Eye. 1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling 55 The Red-Eye..is very much like a Bream, but thicker. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 412 To this second division [sc. Cyprinidæ] belong four British species, the largest of which, the Rudd or Red-eye, is a very common fish in Europe. 1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 May 273/2 The rudd, or red-eye, a beautiful active fish, is very abundant. 1990 R. Minervini et al. in W. L. T. van Densen et al. Managem. Freshwater Fisheries xxv. 295 Red eye or rudd. This species feeds mainly on vegetation. It is considered a poor quality fish and has no market value. b. U.S. Any of various freshwater sunfishes of the family Centrarchidae; (now esp.) (more fully redeye bass) Micropterus coosae, which has orange fins and is native to parts of the south-eastern United States. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of red-eye1820 mountain trout1884 goggle-eye1897 1820 Rafinesque in Smithson. Coll. (1877) XIII. ix. i. 20 Red-Eye Sunfish, Icthelis Erythrops. 1877 Jordan in Smithson. Coll. XIII. ix. i. 22 The name ‘Red-Eye’ in the region which this fish is supposed to inhabit is chiefly applied to the Rock-Bass (Ambloplites rupestris). 1909 C. F. Holder & D. S. Jordan Fish Stories 240 Some of these [sunfish] are called blue-gills, dollardee, red-eye, rock-bass, grass-bass. 1935 L. S. Caine Game Fish of South 3 Large-mouthed Black Bass..Redeye. 1976 T. Tryckare Lore of Sportfishing 102 Warmouth Bass... Other common names..redeye [etc.]. 2006 S. M. McGinnis Field Guide Freshwater Fishes Calif. (rev. ed.) 330 Redeye Bass was stocked in a number of middle- and low-elevation rivers and streams in the early 1960's. 2. North American. = red-eyed vireo n. at red-eyed adj. Compounds. Also more fully red-eye vireo. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Vireonidae (vireo) > genus Vireo (red-eye) whip-tom-kelly1756 red-eye1834 1834 W. B. O. Peabody Life A. Wilson 56 Nothing perhaps exceeds the delicious note of the warbling vireo and the red-eye. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 172 The birds sang quite as in our woods,—the red-eye, red-start, veery, wood-pewee, etc. 1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. III. 103/2 Mr. Job..photographed several times a female Red-eye solicitously feeding two voracious young Cowbirds. 1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles II. 252 The red-eye has been called ‘preacher-bird’ because of its unceasing vocal efforts. 1995 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 23 753 (table) Red-eye vireo (Vireo olivaceus). 3. Australian. A black cicada of eastern Australia, Psaltoda moerens, which has red eyes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae > psaltoda moerens (red-eye) red-eye1904 1904 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales 586 The Black Cicada or 'Red-Eye' is seldom found in our gardens, but frequents the trunks and branches of the smooth-stemmed Eucalypts. 1925 Illustr. Austral. Encycl. I. 269/1 Well-known species [of cicada] are the Red-eye..and the Floury Miller.., both names well describing the insect's appearance. 1965 Austral. Encycl. II. 380/1 Other well-known cicadas are the red-eye..and the aptly named cherry-nose. 2005 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 3 Feb. (Domain) 14 Black Princes, Floury Bakers and Red Eyes are around in February, so there's still time for a cicada summer. 4. Medicine. Redness (vascular injection) of the conjunctiva of one or both eyes; esp. that resulting from acute conjunctivitis (= pink-eye n.¹ 3). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > conjunctivitis or ophthalmitis > types of psorophthalmia1585 psorophthalmy1656 xerophthalmia1656 ophthalmia neonatorum1835 photophobophthalmia1842 sun blight1848 sand-blight1852 sandy blight1869 blepharoconjunctivitis1890 pink-eye1897 klieg eyes1923 bung eye1933 shipyard eye1943 red-eye1952 1952 Lancet 8 Nov. 944/2 Red eye & its differential diagnosis. 1978 Jrnl. Internat. Med. Res. 6 141 (heading) Tanderil/chloramphenicol eye ointment in the treatment of the ‘Red Eye’ seen in general practice. 2004 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 28 Mar. a5 The flu was contracted in a mild form of red eye, or conjunctivitis, by a man helping clean up chickens in the second of five barns contaminated. 5. Photography. An unwanted effect in flash photographs whereby the pupils of a subject appear red, caused by light reflected from the blood vessels of the retina, and occurring when the source of the flash is too near the camera lens; frequently attributive. Also (as red eye): an eye that appears red in a photograph for this reason. ΚΠ 1966 H. Keppler Asahi Pentax Way 240 Highlights in the pupils may show as two glowing red spots... This is the so-called ‘red-eye effect’ typical of on-camera flash technique. 1978 Chicago June 198/2 Pop-out electronic flash lets you stop action in low light. Eliminates ‘red-eye’. 1991 Rolling Stone 28 Nov. 111/4 Novice snapshooters can take crisp photographs, sans red eyes and ghost-white faces. 1995 Which? June 43/2 All the SLRs with a built-in flash, except the Nikon F50, have a red-eye reduction system. 2009 L. Thompson tr. H. Mankell Ital. Shoes ii. 137 Poor-quality coloured pictures from the early 1970s, in the days when everybody had red-eye, and gaped at the photographer like vampires. II. figurative and in extended use. 6. U.S. slang. Whisky, esp. cheap, poor-quality whisky. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > inferior whisky red-eye1819 tarantula-juice1861 bug juice1863 Berlin spirit1878 bluestone1880 smoke1904 snakebite1979 1819 J. A. Quitman Diary in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) I. 42 Whiting and I had to treat to ‘red-eye’ or ‘rot-gut’, as whiskey is here called. 1838 Yale Lit. Mag. 3 12 An Indian tribe that..seldom ever passed the prairie except to sell their skins, and purchase ‘red-eye’. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) (at cited word) I promised the overseer..a demijohn of red-eye if all went straight. 1910 in J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 305 Drink that rot gut, drink that rot gut, Drink that red eye, boys. 1957 J. Steinbeck Short Reign of Pippin IV 69 Serving red-eye in shot-glasses. 1976 Observer 5 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 18 (advt.) Most of the liquor to be had [in New Orleans] at that time [sc. 1865] was known as ‘redeye’. Because that's what it did. 2003 Independent 20 Nov. (Review section) 7/2 Duke Philip was real welcoming also... ‘I know you blasted Yanks... Would you care for a shot of red-eye before dinner?’ 7. U.S. Military slang. Tomato ketchup. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > ketchup > tomato ketchup tomato ketchup1801 tomato catsup1845 tomato sauce1911 red lead1917 red-eye1923 1923 G. McKnight Eng. Words 56 Red eye for ‘catsup’. 1947 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Aug. 10/3 Red-Eye..that great disguise, ketchup. 1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 423/2 Redeye.., ketchup. W.W.I and W.W.II Armed Forces use. 8. Canadian regional (western). A drink made from beer and tomato juice. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > mixed drinks of ale or beer > [noun] three-threads1698 pap-in1748 half-and-half1756 porter cup1790 shandygaff1853 mixed ale1864 cooper1871 black and tan1881 four-half1884 mother-in-law1884 shandy1888 smiler1892 mild-and-bitter1933 red-eye1960 1960 Chicago Sunday Tribune 2 Oct. v. 7/2 Called a Red Eye in Calgary.., it is a mixture of tomato juice and beer. 1975 ‘S. Marlowe’ Cawthorn Jrnls. (1976) xiii. 107 ‘I'll have a redeye,’ Lester told the barman, who mixed tomato juice and beer for him, half and half. 1985 C. B. Wine Across Table 116 Nor can they know the lilting joy of a gulp of beer and tomato juice, the popular Red-eye. 2004 K. Colburn & R. Sorensen So You want to be Canad. 74 9 am Order a Calgary Red Eye. 9. U.S. colloquial. A flight on which a passenger cannot expect to get much sleep because of the time of departure or arrival, esp. an overnight flight on a west-to-east route. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [adjective] > type of flight or service non-scheduled1855 charter1922 standby1946 walk-on1959 red-eye1964 1964 N.Y. Times 3 June 30/4 During the long California campaign, Mr. Goldwater has many times flown the same night flight to Washington. He calls it the ‘red-eye special’. 1972 ‘J. Lange’ Binary 19 Phelps had brought them out to California on a red-eye flight, let them sleep a few hours, then dragged them up for a meeting. 1984 E. Hoagland Up Black to Chalkyitsik in Balancing Acts (1992) 94 The flight to Seattle was an ordinary red-eye, with sleepy yuppies loosening their ties. 2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Nov. (Central ed.) w13/1 Now the airlines are adding red-eyes to cities not typically associated with overnight flights. Compounds red-eye gravy n. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) gravy made by adding liquid (esp. coffee) to the drippings from cooked ham or other cured meat; cf. earlier red gravy n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1f(c)(i). [Probably so called on account of its appearance, before the grease and liquid are combined.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > gravy > [noun] > types of made gravy1730 jus1847 red gravy1887 au jus1903 red-eye gravy1931 sambar1957 1931 San Antonio (Texas) Light 28 Apr. 10 a/7 (advt.) Ham Steak A thick, tender, flavory cut..fried in the pan..served with red-eye gravy and steamed rice. 1943 Los Angeles Times 12 May i. 8/1 We talked about them and about Vanderbilt football teams and how good it would be to have another breakfast of Tennessee ham, grits, red-eye gravy and fried sweet potatoes. 1959 Washington Post 29 Oct. d5/1 To the folks in the hominy grits and red-eye gravy belt there is only one game this week—Louisiana State vs. Mississippi. 1977 Time 24 Oct. 27/2 Dennis serves up his baked ham and red-eye gravy, grits, green beans, carrots, buttermilk biscuits and coffee. 2004 J. McCoy Wanted: One Perfect Man ii. 29 Tomas is makin' his special baked ham and mashed potatoes with redeye gravy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1672
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