English Explanatory Dictionary

moonlighter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who moonlights, working a second job on the side.
  2. One who serenades by moonlight.
  3. A moonshiner, who makes illicit alcohol.
  4. One of a gang who used violence, especially at night, to promote agrarianism in Ireland during the Land War of the late 19th century.
  5. A southern Australian marine fish, Tilodon sexfasciatum.

Word forms

moonlighter moonlighters

Etymology

From moonlight + -er.

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