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nightcapping

nightcapping is the present participle and gerund of nightcap.

Meaning of nightcap

Verb

nightcap (third-person singular simple present nightcaps, present participle nightcapping, simple past and past participle nightcapped)

  1. (intransitive) To drink an alcoholic beverage shortly before retiring to bed.
    • Even better than breakfast, though, is nightcapping at the Waffle House . Nightcapping happens after the bars close, but before the southern sunrise: the hours when their jukeboxes play “Freebird” on a continual loop, […]2010, Mark Decarlo, Fork on the Road: 400 Cities/One Stomach, page 229

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Questions about nightcapping

What is nightcapping the present participle and gerund of?
Nightcapping is the present participle and gerund of nightcap.

Words near nightcapping in the dictionary

  1. nightbreeze
  2. nightbreezes
  3. nightcap
  4. nightcap oak
  5. nightcapped
  6. nightcapping
  7. nightcaps
  8. nightcare
  9. nightcart
  10. nightcarts
  11. nightchurr

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nightcapping (page history and authors); nightcap (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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