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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Diving Ducks As the name implies, diving ducks such as greater and lesser scaup, canvasbacks, and redheads dive for their meals.
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M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 2 Nov. 2023
Ramer, a redhead with a mustache, is descended from Mennonite pacifists on both sides of his family.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023
Discovering that she’s now equipped to do her own murdering, her parents cut off her blood supply, sending Sasha to live with her cousin Denise (Noémie O’Farrell), a snarling redhead with as few qualms about killing as Sasha has kills.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
In the opening moments of the pilot, which aired in December 2019, a pretty redhead (Alexandra Breckenridge) drives her red BMW into a ditch on a desolate mountain road, only to be rescued by a gruff older man (Tim Matheson) who happens to be passing by in a truck.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
This hair color trend is flush with inspiration to dive into red this autumn.
Check out 13 ways to wear copper hair this year.
01
Faded Copper
Behold the winner of most likely to be a natural redhead.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
At the end of May, Megan Thee Stallion officially became a redhead.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 20 Sep. 2023
Public history does not feel as alluring to him as furtive genealogies of violence, dramatized in obstinate orphic repetition from one book to the next: a woman (a redhead, a divorcée, someone love-hungry and secretive) is resurrected and rescued, only to be lost again.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
The event then inspired him to start formally organizing the event, which holds a 2013 entry in Guinness World Records for the largest gathering of natural redheads, with 1,672 such people in one photo.
—Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
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M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 2 Nov. 2023
Ramer, a redhead with a mustache, is descended from Mennonite pacifists on both sides of his family.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023
Discovering that she’s now equipped to do her own murdering, her parents cut off her blood supply, sending Sasha to live with her cousin Denise (Noémie O’Farrell), a snarling redhead with as few qualms about killing as Sasha has kills.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
In the opening moments of the pilot, which aired in December 2019, a pretty redhead (Alexandra Breckenridge) drives her red BMW into a ditch on a desolate mountain road, only to be rescued by a gruff older man (Tim Matheson) who happens to be passing by in a truck.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
This hair color trend is flush with inspiration to dive into red this autumn.
Check out 13 ways to wear copper hair this year.
01
Faded Copper
Behold the winner of most likely to be a natural redhead.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
At the end of May, Megan Thee Stallion officially became a redhead.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 20 Sep. 2023
Public history does not feel as alluring to him as furtive genealogies of violence, dramatized in obstinate orphic repetition from one book to the next: a woman (a redhead, a divorcée, someone love-hungry and secretive) is resurrected and rescued, only to be lost again.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
The event then inspired him to start formally organizing the event, which holds a 2013 entry in Guinness World Records for the largest gathering of natural redheads, with 1,672 such people in one photo.
—Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
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1664, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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: a person having red hair
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