redhead

plural redheads

1. A person with red hair.

   I like redheads. Their mouths are like a drop of strawberry jam in a glass of milk.

   2007, Matthew Weiner, “Red in the Face”, in Mad Men, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Roger Sterling

   Synonyms: ginger, coppertop, bloodnut, Bluey

2. A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.
3. A kind of milkweed (Asclepia curassavica), with red flowers, formerly used in medicine.
4. Chinese red-headed centipede (Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans)
5. Red-headed bunting (Emberiza bruniceps).
6. Red-headed titi (Callicebus regulus).
7. Red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus).
8. informalRed-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus).
9. broadcastingA kind of 800-watt lamp.

   Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.

   2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 63

plural Redheads

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. countableuncountableA coastal suburb of Newcastle in the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.