sundowner
IPA: sˈʌndoʊnɝ
noun
- (Australia, obsolete) An itinerant worker, such as a swagman, who arrives at a farm too late in the day to do any work, but readily accepts food and lodging.
- (Australia, obsolete) An itinerant worker, a swagman.
- (nautical) A sea captain who shows harsh discipline by requiring all hands to be on board by sundown.
- (medicine, colloquial) A patient, usually demented, who tends to become agitated in the evening.
- (originally colonial slang, especially southern Africa) A cocktail consumed at sunset, or to signify the end of the day.
- A cocktail party held in the early evening.
- A physician employed by the government who practises for private fees after his official hours.
- Any worker who practises for private fees after official hours.
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Examples of "sundowner" in Sentences
- Naked people and sundowner optional.
- I am the creator of the sundowner page.
- A sundowner is a drink at sundown, and it doesn't get any easier than that.
- He told me it is a race against time and a race against what they call the sundowner winds.
- It's called a sundowner wind, and it usually means that the strong Santa Ana winds are just days away.
- Rob Marciano tells us a little while ago that the gusting evening winds called sundowner winds, have been making it pretty tough for firefighters to get a handle on this blaze.
- Firefighters were on alert for a predicted return of a "sundowner" - fierce winds that can sweep down late in the day from the Santa Ynez Mountains towering close behind Santa Barbara.
- The latest fire remained out of control and firefighters were on alert for a predicted return of a "sundowner" - fierce winds that sweep down late in the day from the Santa Ynez Mountains towering close behind Santa Barbara.
- The latest fire remained out of control and firefighters were on alert for a predicted return of a "sundowner" -- fierce winds that sweep down late in the day from the Santa Ynez Mountains towering close behind Santa Barbara.
- It remained out of control late Thursday and firefighters were on alert for a predicted return of a "sundowner" -- fierce winds that sweep down late in the day from the Santa Ynez Mountains towering close behind Santa Barbara.
- The latest 1,300-acre fire remained out of control and firefighters were on alert for a predicted return of a "sundowner" - fierce winds that sweep down late in the day from the Santa Ynez Mountains towering close behind Santa Barbara.