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English

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 nightcap on Wikipedia

Alternative forms

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• night cap, night-cap

Etymology

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From night +‎ cap.

Pronunciation

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• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnaɪtˌkæp/

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Noun

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nightcap (plural nightcaps)

1. (clothing) A warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread. [From 14th c.] Winston wore a nightcap to stave off the cold.
2. A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic. [From 1818.] I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed.
   • 1980 August 2, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 14: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.
   • 2024 November 8, Justin McCurry, “Coffee, sandwiches, underwear, beer: a day in the life of Japan’s beloved konbini stores”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN: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. (by extension, figuratively) Something that a person reads or listens to before bed.
   • 1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Recreations of a Psychologist‎[2]:"[…] and as a nightcap I happened to pick the copy of Plato […]"
4. (US, sports, baseball) The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader. [From 1939.]
5. (historical) A cap drawn over the face of the condemned person before they are hanged.

Derived terms

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• nightcapped
• nightcap oak

Translations

[edit] warm cap worn at night

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 睡帽 (zh) (shuìmào) Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: slaapmuts (nl) f Finnish: yömyssy (fi) French: bonnet de nuit (fr) Galician: gorro de dormir German: Schlafmütze (de) f Greek: νυχτικός σκούφος m (nychtikós skoúfos) Hungarian: hálósapka (hu), hálósipka Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Italian: berretto frigio, berretto da notte m, papalina (it) f Macedonian: капа за спиење f (kapa za spienje) Malay: please add this translation if you can Polish: szlafmyca (pl) f Portuguese: touca de dormir f, barrete de dormir m, gorro de dormir m Russian: ночно́й колпа́к m (nočnój kolpák), колпа́к (ru) m (kolpák) Serbo-Croatian: noćna kapica f Spanish: gorro de dormir m Swedish: nattmössa (sv) c Volapük: slipabonät

beverage

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: slaapmutsje (nl) n Finnish: yömyssy (fi) German: Absacker (de) m (colloquial), Schlummertrunk (de) m Japanese: 寝酒 (nezake) Russian: please add this translation if you can Swedish: sängfösare (sv) c

Verb

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nightcap (third-person singular simple present nightcaps, present participle nightcapping, simple past and past participle nightcapped)

1. (intransitive) To drink an alcoholic beverage shortly before retiring to bed.
   • 2010, Mark Decarlo, Fork on the Road: 400 Cities/One Stomach, page 229: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, […]
   • 2020, Mitchell Jackson, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, page 143:We nightcapped at the Four Seasons Hotel George V, on the most extravagant cocktails I'd ever purchased in life.

Anagrams

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• patching

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