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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Peppermint Patty Peppermint Patty is a freckled redhead who has a crush on Charlie Brown.
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
From Keke Palmer and Pamela Anderson to Millie Bobby Brown and Jennifer Love Hewitt, everyone took a turn being a redhead.
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The shopper’s guide, somewhere on the sixth floor, was a tall, statuesque redhead.
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Lance, a redhead who just went on vacation (Ben Marshall), comes out to comment; he's covered in sunburn and needs a hospital.
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
From Keke Palmer and Pamela Anderson to Millie Bobby Brown and Jennifer Love Hewitt, everyone took a turn being a redhead.
—Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 30 Dec. 2025
The shopper’s guide, somewhere on the sixth floor, was a tall, statuesque redhead.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2025
Lance, a redhead who just went on vacation (Ben Marshall), comes out to comment; he's covered in sunburn and needs a hospital.
—Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for redhead
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“Redhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/redhead. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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redhead
noun
red·head
-ˌhed 
: a person having red hair
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