If your eyes are bloodshot, the parts that are usually white are red or pink. Your eyes can be bloodshot for a variety of reasons, for example because you are tired or you have drunk too much alcohol.
John's eyes were bloodshot and puffy.
bloodshot in British English
(ˈblʌdˌʃɒt)
adjective
(of an eye) inflamed
bloodshot in American English
(ˈblʌdˌʃɑt)
adjective
red because the small blood vessels are swollen or broken
said of the eyes
Word origin
ME blodshoten < blod, blood + pp. of schoten, shoot
Examples of 'bloodshot' in a sentence
bloodshot
The Colonel turned to him, as before, his bloodshot eyes of menace.
Harvey, John COUP D'ETAT (2001)
He looked at her with his green eyes now bloodshot, breathing rather too fast through his open mouth.
Clive Barker EVERVILLE (2001)
A flicker of something heated gleamed in his bloodshot eyes.