nightwalker

[nahyt-waw-ker]

noun

1. a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.

2. New England.,  an earthworm.

Other Word Forms

• nightwalking adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of nightwalker¹

First recorded in 1475–85; night + walker

Example Sentences

As war rages between humans and vampires — and a power struggle unfolds among the nightwalker ranks — house music pumps just as hard as the blood.

From New York Times

Eliot Schrefer’s new Lost Rainforest series casts sunset as nature’s own Mason-Dixon line, dividing animal kind into daywalkers and nightwalkers — two factions with a xenophobic fear of one another.

From New York Times