nightcap

Meanings

Noun

• A warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread.
• A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic.
• Something that a person reads or listens to before bed.
• The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader.
• A cap drawn over the face of the condemned person before they are hanged.

Verb

• To drink an alcoholic beverage shortly before retiring to bed.

Origin

• night + cap