night-tripping

adj, noun — 2 senses

adj

That trips or moves lightly about at night.

We shall thence pursue our course through Arabia, till we arrive at the middle-age romance of Europe, and the gorgeous realms of Fairy-land; and thence, casting a glance at the "Faerie Queene", advance to the mountains and forests of the North, there to trace the origin of the light-hearted, night-tripping elves.1833, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 20:

noun

The act of making an excursion at night.

"I was given the monicker in med school, because my name was John and I did a certain amount of night-tripping."2011, James Ellroy, L.A. Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy, Random House, page 407:

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