sundowner

noun sundowners

1. Australia, obsolete An itinerant worker, such as a swagman, who arrives at a farm too late in the day to do any work, but readily accepts food and lodging. What he saw was not usual in this part of Australia - a sundowner, a bush waif who tramps from north to south or from east to west, never working, cadging rations from the far-flung homesteads and having the ability of the camel to do without water, or find it.
2. Australia, obsolete An itinerant worker, a swagman.
3. A sea captain who shows harsh discipline by requiring all hands to be on board by sundown. Arrogant, aloof, and suspicious, a “sundowner,” or strict disciplinarian, King inspired respect in many but affection in few.
4. colloquial A patient, usually demented, who tends to become agitated in the evening. These patients may improve by day only to relapse at night (nocturnal delirium or sundowner's syndrome).
5. Africa, Southern, especially A cocktail consumed at sunset, or to signify the end of the day. The cocktail, the universal “sherry and bitters” and sundowner will have to be retained.
6. A cocktail party held in the early evening. The Sundowner is basically a cocktail party with a buffet on a riverbank in the bush.
7. A physician employed by the government who practises for private fees after his official hours.
8. Any worker who practises for private fees after official hours. These "sundowners" hold jobs in other — usually related — trades, and do their servicing nights and weekends.
9. A northerly offshore wind which occurs in California along the southern Pacific slope of Santa Ynez Mountains when a region of high pressure is north of the area (the coast of which trends east to west), often preceding or following a Santa Ana and typically occurring at night and ceasing during the day (hence the name). […] Sundowners originate as a high pressure nudges onto the coast of San Luis […]