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night-tripping

night-tripping adjective: that trips or moves lightly about at night.

Adjective

night-tripping (not comparable)

  1. That trips or moves lightly about at night.
    • We shall thence pursue our course through Arabia, till we arrive at the middle-age romance of Europe, and the gorgeous realms of Fairy-land; and thence, casting a glance at the "Faerie Queene", advance to the mountains and forests of the North, there to trace the origin of the light-hearted...1833, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 20

Noun

night-tripping (uncountable)

  1. The act of making an excursion at night.
    • "I was given the monicker in med school, because my name was John and I did a certain amount of night-tripping."2011, James Ellroy, L.A. Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy, Random House, page 407

Questions about night-tripping

What does night-tripping mean?
Night-tripping means that trips or moves lightly about at night.
What part of speech is night-tripping?
Night-tripping can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near night-tripping in the dictionary

  1. night-stalkers
  2. night-stand
  3. night-stands
  4. night-time
  5. night-times
  6. night-tripping
  7. night-watch
  8. night-watcher
  9. night-watchers
  10. night-watches
  11. night-watching

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