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nightcap
noun as in after-dinner drink
Weak matches
noun as in sleeping pill
Strongest match
noun as in stirrup cup
Weak matches
Example Sentences
That night, about a week before Thanksgiving, Salahi invited her to his hotel room for a nightcap.
Elaine was always happy to see me, although she didn't bother to hide her irritation when I'd come for a nightcap.
Mrs. Biggs opened her window cautiously, and thrust out her head, minus her false hair, and enveloped in a cotton nightcap.
Only first exchange that nightcap for some more appropriate covering, or we shall be taken for madmen.
When the guests are well emptied of theology, everyone takes his nightcap—the signal for breaking up.
The nightcap is generally the little whisky left in the decanter; to do it honour, it is taken neat.
He wore a nightcap with a tassel, and for days never left his room, occasionally appearing in a faded peacock-blue dressing-gown.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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