sundowner
(noun) a drink taken at sundown
sundowner
(noun) a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sundowner (plural sundowners)
(Australia, obsolete) An itinerant worker, such as a swagman, who arrives at a farm too late in the day to do any work, but readily accepts food and lodging.
(Australia, obsolete) An itinerant worker, a swagman.
(nautical) A sea captain who shows harsh discipline by requiring all hands to be on board by sundown.
(medicine, colloquial) A patient, usually demented, who tends to become agitated in the evening.
(originally, colonial slang, especially, southern Africa) A cocktail consumed at sunset, or to signify the end of the day.
A cocktail party held in the early evening.
A physician employed by the government who practises for private fees after his official hours.
Any worker who practises for private fees after official hours.
• newsround, snow under, undersnow, undersown, unwonders
Source: Wiktionary
Sun"down`er, n.
Definition: A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).
Sundowners, -- men who loaf about till sunset, and then come in with the demand for unrefusable rations. Francis Adams.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 June 2025
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