nightcap

Substantiv

1. 1

   A warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread.

   Winston wore a nightcap to stave off the cold.

2. 2

   A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic.

   I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed.

   You know the other night, when I had dinner with Afro-Dite? When Jo was in San Francisco? Well we dropped into the Sinners, right, just for a nightcap.

   This week I took up the relatively simple challenge of buying breakfast, lunch and dinner—and a nightcap—exclusively from konbini, as well as completing a couple of admin tasks.

3. 3

   übertragenSomething that a person reads or listens to before bed.

   "[…] and as a nightcap I happened to pick the copy of Plato […]"

4. 4

   The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader.

5. 5

   historischA cap drawn over the face of the condemned person before they are hanged.

Verb

1. 1

   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, […]

   We nightcapped at the Four Seasons Hotel George V, on the most extravagant cocktails I'd ever purchased in life.

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Plural

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Präteritum

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Partizip II

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Partizip I

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3. Person Singular

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