night-tripping

adjective

That trips or moves lightly about at night.

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Meanings

adjectivenight-tripping (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThat trips or moves lightly about at night.
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    We shall thence pursue our course through Arabia, till we arrive at the middle-age romance of Europe, and the gorgeous realms of Fairy-land; and thence, casting a glance at the "Faerie Queene", advance to the mountains and forests of the North, there to trace the origin of the light-hearted, night-tripping elves.

    1833, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 20
nounnight-tripping (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe act of making an excursion at night.

    "I was given the monicker in med school, because my name was John and I did a certain amount of night-tripping."

    2011, James Ellroy, L.A. Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy, Random House, page 407
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Chicago

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