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pub crawler

noun

Definition of pub crawlernext
as in night owl

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  1. night owl
  2. nighthawk
  3. night rider
Noun
  • That’s why the Timeshifter jet lag app asks for your age, your usual sleep times, your caffeine and melatonin habits, and your chronotype—early bird, night owl, or neither.
    — JD Shadel, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Quarterfinal Tuesday brought another somewhat nightmarish scenario for everyone except the true night owls.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of night owl
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  • Nearby, Rodriguez is mimicking the call of a nighthawk.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Somewhere in the desert, nighthawks are rising from reefs of blood-red clouds.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of nighthawk
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  • April 18th is one of the most important dates in American history and marks the night riders warned fellow patriots that British troops were on the move.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2026
  • By the end of the school year, pretty much every item in the apparatus of Southern civil-rights resistance had made an appearance in Clinton, from anti-Black slurs and heckling to cross burnings, bombings, and Ku Klux Klan night riders.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
Definition of night rider
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“Pub crawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pub%20crawler. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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