nightwalker
noun
night·walk·er
ˈnīt-ˌwȯ-kər 
plural nightwalkers
1
: a person who roams about at night especially with criminal intent
2
: sex worker
especially
: one who solicits in the streets
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Sulca joined the local ronda—night patrols formed by peasants to protect their communities from the Shining Path—whom Quechua speakers call tuta puriqkuna, nightwalkers, a term also used to describe Spaniards during colonial times.
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Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
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.
—Christopher Healy, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
Because the one thing nightwalkers and daywalkers agree on is that shadowwalkers are an abomination of nature.
—Christopher Healy, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
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Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
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.
—Christopher Healy, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
Because the one thing nightwalkers and daywalkers agree on is that shadowwalkers are an abomination of nature.
—Christopher Healy, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
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nightwalker
noun
night·walk·er
ˈnīt-ˌwȯ-kər
: a person who roams about at night soliciting others for illicit sexual acts
—often preceded by common
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