nighthawk

IPA: nˈaɪthɔk

(UK, regional) A nightjar, especially Caprimulgus europaeus (Eurasian nightjar).
(US) A New World nightjar of the genus Chordeiles, especially Chordeiles minor.
A person whose preference or custom is to remain awake and active during the night and the early morning hours.
A nighthawker (metal detectorist who works illegally at night).

Examples of "nighthawk" in Sentences

She got her start in journalism as nighthawk at the Boston Globe.
The high-pitched sound is from a soaring insect-eater called a nighthawk.
Wybrcathl floated into the air, a buoyant song, a nighthawk gliding on thermals.
I was worried about all the stuff I had to begin to do to find us a new nighthawk.
So it should be no surprise that I actually filled out this music survey thingy I found in nighthawk's LJ.
There is a glorious passage by Henry Thoreau of his encounter with a nightjar relative called a nighthawk.
The black nodules of his sprinkler system clicked in the muggy air, and in one of the peeling river birches, a single nighthawk warbled.
Think of Walky as a 'nighthawk'! "and Marty, who was a short, freckled-faced boy several years his cousin's junior, went off into a spasm of laughter.