nightcap
IPA: nˈaɪtkæp
noun
- A warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread.
- A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic.
- (by extension, figuratively) Something that a person reads or listens to before bed.
- (US, sports, baseball) The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader.
- (historical) A cap drawn over the face of the condemned person before they are hanged.
verb
- (intransitive) To drink an alcoholic beverage shortly before retiring to bed.
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Examples of "nightcap" in Sentences
- Nightcap A wine or liquor taken before bedtime.
- I guess they're probably sitting down to a nightcap.
- An unusual common name is granny's nightcap in Finland.
- The nightshirt version can include a matching nightcap.
- Candido enters, still dressed in the carpet and nightcap.
- Ruth then pitched a complete game victory in the nightcap.
- Thank you for catching the vandalism on the Nightcap page.
- Anyway, a woman's nightcap didn't look like a stocking cap.
- But this installment of the Breakfast Table is more like a nightcap.
- A nightcap is an alcoholic beverage drunk right before going to sleep.
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