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nightcapped

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night⋅cap

[nahyt-kap]
–noun
1. Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
2. a cap for the head, intended primarily to be worn in bed.
3. Sports Informal. the last event of the program for the day, esp. the second game of a doubleheader in baseball or the last race of the day in horse racing.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see night, cap 1


nightcapped, adjective
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nightcap 
c.1386, "covering for the head, worn in bed," from night + cap. In the alcoholic sense, it is attested from 1818. Amer.Eng. sense of "final event in a sporting contest" (especially the second game of a baseball double-header) is from 1939.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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