sundowner
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How to use sundowner in a sentence
After the rain ended, we took a bottle of wine to a slab of granite rock just beyond camp for a sundowner.
Walking With Wildebeests: Exploring the Serengeti on Foot | Joanna Eede | July 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe news of his return spread quickly and several officials dropped in for a "sundowner."
The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies | Frank WorthingtonHe longed each night for the usual "sundowner," but had determined not to open his one remaining bottle, in case of accident.
The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies | Frank Worthingtonsundowner: (Historical) A swagman who arrives at a place too late for work, but looking for food and/or shelter.
Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses | A. B. PatersonIt was no sundowner, not even a man from Boonara, out on the jag, who had wandered in a half-frenzied condition so many miles.
The Sweep Winner | Nat Gould
An old sundowner, chancing to pass along the road, stopped in the hopes of a yarn.
Colonial Born | G. Firth Scott
British Dictionary definitions for sundowner
/ (ˈsʌnˌdaʊnə) /
Australian and NZ obsolete, slang a tramp, esp one who seeks food and lodging at sundown when it is too late to work
nautical a strict ship's officer
informal, mainly British an alcoholic drink taken at sunset
NZ slang a lazy sheepdog
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