moonlighting

/ ˈmuːnˌlaɪtɪŋ /

noun

1. working at a secondary job

2. (in 19th-century Ireland) the carrying out of cattle-maiming, murders, etc, during the night in protest against the land-tenure system

Example Sentences

He wears two watches — one on each wrist, a habit he has been heard saying he picked up moonlighting as a high school lacrosse referee.

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At the same time, she was “moonlighting” as a professional cyclist, she said.

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Despite being shy and inhibited, he began “moonlighting” in the drama department, where, he later wrote, he found himself “fast losing my heart to drama.”

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Announcin’ his latest moonlighting endeavor, Newsom told reporters, “I want to engage people that often I engage with in private and make public those conversations.”

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Early in her career, she taught music to grade-schoolers and was discovered while moonlighting in a D.C. night club.

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