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night crawler

night crawler is the alternative form of nightcrawler.

Meaning of nightcrawler

Noun

nightcrawler (plural nightcrawlers)

  1. An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
  2. (Northern-US, US, Western) More generally, any arbitrarily large earthworm, especially those favored in angling.
  3. A person or creature who prowls in the night-time.
    • Arc lights slashed the cool air along the neon facades of bars and after-hours clubs. Street musicians shrilled. And the nameless nightcrawlers huddled in doorways […]1995, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert E. Weinberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (page 147)

Forms of night crawler

pluralnight crawlers

Questions about night crawler

What is night crawler the alternative form of?
Night crawler is the alternative form of nightcrawler.

Words near night crawler in the dictionary

  1. night classes
  2. night club
  3. night clubs
  4. night court
  5. night courts
  6. night crawler
  7. night crawlers
  8. night crawling
  9. night cream
  10. night creams
  11. night diaper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: night crawler (page history and authors); nightcrawler (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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