pink eye

See also: pinkeye

English

Noun

pink eye (countable and uncountable, plural pink eyes)

  1. (pathology) Alternative spelling of pinkeye
    • 2023 May 10, Julie Bosman, “Open-Armed Chicago Feels the Strains of a Migrant Influx”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      Some of the migrants, including pregnant women and small children, are ill with colds, pink eye or Covid-19, leaving volunteers and city workers scrambling to find them health services.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, eye.
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