redhead

Etymology

Bahuvrihi compound of red + head.

noun

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
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. red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus)
9. (film, television, theater) A kind of 800-watt lamp.
   Coordinate term: blonde
   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