night person

noun

a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.

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night person definition

n.
a person who prefers to be active in the nighttime. (The plural is with people. Compare this with day person.) : I can't function in the morning. I'm strictly a night person.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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"I have every characteristic of a night person—a distaste for bosses, a hatred of the expected, an obsession with gaining an ultimately nonexistent freedom—every quality except one. I can't stay awake after a while. I fall asleep."

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