A person with bright red or orange hair, often used as a nickname or informal descriptor.
A compound of 'carrot' (a root vegetable with reddish-orange color, from Old French carotte) and 'top' (from Old English topp meaning 'highest point'), literally describing the top of the head.
Before hair dyes made red hair easier to achieve, carrot-top was a distinctive and memorable feature—so much so that it became a defining characteristic used in descriptions and nicknames, similar to how Blackbeard was called Blackbeard because of his appearance.
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