Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A usually alcoholic drink taken just before bedtime.
- n. Sports & Games The last event in a day's competition, especially the final game in a baseball double-header.
- n. A cloth cap worn especially in bed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A covering for the head intended to be worn in bed. In the time of the Tudors, and down to Queen Anne's reign, nightcaps, frequently of very rich material and ornament, were worn by men during the daytime after their wigs were taken off.
- n. A potation of spirit or wine taken before going to bed.
- n. A cap drawn over a criminal's face when he is hanged. Sometimes horse-nightcap.
- n. A bully; a night-brawler.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
- n. Cant An alcoholic beverage drunk at bedtime.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic
- n. the final game of a double header
- n. a cloth cap worn in bed
Etymologies
- night + cap (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This lets out those who might decide to eat an entire lobster after midnight, or anyone whose idea of a nightcap is a belgian waffle.”
“The nightcap is between teams that climbed as high as second”
“My nightcap from the Management was this notice in red ink”
“At 4 hours, 45 minutes, the nightcap was the longest nine-inning game in major league history, and it came on top of a relatively speedy 3:55 afternoon contest.”
“If a marriage is to come off, the bride's lace on her nightcap is a subject of criticism.”
“M'Carthy prudently hesitated either to arouse his loyalty or disturb the tranquility of his family, and after joining him in a tumbler of punch, or what O'Driscol termed his nightcap, he retired to bed, where, however, he could not for a considerable time prevent himself from ruminating, with a good deal of seriousness, upon the extraordinary interview he had had with the friendly stranger.”
“A nightcap should be a one-off, not "one more" of whatever you're drinking.”
“The nightcap was a makeup of Wednesday night's rainout.”
“And the nightcap is the one you enjoy just as the birds start to sing.”
““And to think I once envied her the match!” she went on meditatively, removing her bonnet and substituting a kind of nightcap intended to keep her hair free from dust.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nightcap’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
hats and headgear
Everything hats,things with hoods,hoods,scarves,crowns,useful
adjectival forms,hat expressions,
alternate spellingsbabushka, balaclava, bamoral, baseball cap, beanie, bearskin, beaver hat, beret, billycock, biretta, boater, bobble hat and 422 more...
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Hats Off!
trilby, porkpie, panama, fedora, pillbox, stovepipe, turban, boater, ball cap, pastorella, beret, bowler and 219 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Gaw
Words for things both tangible and anthropic. I'm in the process of spinning off hardware into ute, and people into oofy.
cum-twang, naumachia, yngling, juggernaught, bliss ninny, iliac crest, moistened bint, slumlord, spondoolies, classy lady, charnel house, electrodoméstico and 334 more...
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My Little Ponies
A list of My Little Pony names from the original (G1) collection. 1982-1992
cotton candy, butterscotch, blossom, blue belle, minty, snuzzle, seashell, bubbles, bow tie, applejack, sunbeam, medley and 352 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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random
words I read but don't know
nascent, proxy, desultory, charlatan, churlish, emaciated, gaudy, shill, lurid, frisson, marauding, plunder and 610 more...
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head wear
head-where: head-ware: head (at)tire
sallet, kangol, halo, peruke, cockade, tam, beret, helmet, hood, circlet, phylactery, chignon and 51 more...
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Best of weirdnet
buttocks, peeler, mum, sweets, tree, auld, bowery, pynchon, horror-stricken, and, tatou, scarf and 37 more...
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Chocolate Factory Chapters 1, 2, 3, & 4
Vocabulary for Chapter's 1,2,3, and 4 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
draft, desperately, inventor, absurd, clever, furnace, nibble, colossal, nightcap, stammer, torture, marvelous and 2 more...
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moroxys
less or more (dull sharp)
soft gravel, cold chile, keen flat, uphill flow, smooth grating, raw toast, cooked sushi, fitting mess, svelte slob, sootheing sooth, very false, worm cordiform map and 33 more...
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compound words
My favourites.
birdbath, gallowglass, lamplight, chokecherry, lightbox, riptide, softshoe, snowshed, bluebird, matchbox, sugarcane, nightcap and 64 more...
Tweets
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plethora Thanks for the lesson in redundancy, Weirdnet Apr 22, 2008