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nightwalkernoun1A person who walks about at night or who sleepwalks.But remember it's still too early for the nightwalkers to disregard their reflective gear....- Fundraising for the hospice was a great success with the day and nightwalkers combining forces for the sponsored event.
- The gates of the park were opening and the bedraggled company of nightwalkers were being at last admitted into that paradise of lawns.
1.1 archaic A prostitute: the power to arrest and apprehend all nightwalkers...- These eighteenth-century statutes authorize the arrest of vagrants, vagabonds, and nightwalkers, among others.
- A woman who was on a dark street without an escort was almost certain to be a prostitute, also known as a nightwalker.
- She pleaded guilty to committing vagrancy by being a common prostitute or nightwalker.
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