night-tripping

English

Adjective

night-tripping (not comparable)

  1. That trips or moves lightly about at night.
    • 1833, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 20:
      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.

Noun

night-tripping (uncountable)

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