Crossword clues for sundowner
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sundowner \Sun"down`er\, n. A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).
Sundowners, -- men who loaf about till sunset, and then
come in with the demand for unrefusable rations.
--Francis
Adams.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Australia obsolete English) 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. 2 (context Australia obsolete English) An itinerant worker, a swagman. 3 (context nautical English) A sea captain who shows harsh discipline by requiring all hands to be on board by sundown. 4 (context medicine colloquial English) A patient, usually demented, who tends to become agitated in the evening. 5 A cocktail consumed at sunset, or to signify the end of the day; cocktail party held in the early evening.
WordNet
n. a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown
a drink taken at sundown
Wikipedia
Sundowner or The Sundowners may refer to:
Vehicles:
- Sundowner (automobile), a model of Mazda truck
- Sundowner, a model of the AMC Pacer compact automobile
- Sundowner, a model of Beechcraft airplane
- Ultra-Fab Sundowner, an ultralight aircraft
- Sundowner (yacht), a motor yacht once owned by Charles Lightoller, Second Officer of the Titanic
- The Sundowner, an Australian railway carriage now converted into a cafe
Entertainment:
- The Sundowner (strip club) in Niagara Falls, Canada
- The Sundowners (novel), by Jon Cleary published 1952
- The Sundowners (series), novels by James Swallow
- The Sundowner (1911 film), an Australian lost film
- The Sundowners, a 1960 film adaptation of the Cleary novel starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
- The Sundowners (1950 film), American film directed by George Templeton; also known as Thunder in the Dust in the UK
- The Sundowners (band), a 1960s American rock and roll band
- Sundowner (band), the solo acoustic project of Chris McCaughan
- Sundowner, a character from the video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
- Sundowners, a comic book by Tim Seeley
Other uses:
- Sundowner, an Australian and New Zealand variant term for swagman, a transient worker
- Sundowner (wind), a local wind condition in Southern California
- Sundowners, nickname of VF-111, two US Navy fighter squadrons
- Sundowner, a person suffering from sundowning (dementia), sometimes known as sundowner syndrome
- Sundowner (drink), an alcoholic cocktail
- Sundowner, an area of Randburg, South Africa
- Sundowner Hotel Casino, Reno, Nevada
- Sundowner, trademark of the ' Cripps Red' apple
- Neoregelia Sundowner, a cultivar of the Neoregelia carolinae plant species
Sundowner is a mostly acoustic project of Chris McCaughan of The Lawrence Arms, also featuring Jenny Choi, Neil Hennessy, and Eli Caterer.
Their debut album, Four One Five Two, was released on Red Scare Records on March 13, 2007. Asian Man Records released the second Sundowner album We Chase the Waves on August 10, 2010.
Sundowner toured with Mike Park through the UK and Europe in February and March 2008. During live shows, Sundowner is also known to cover Lawrence Arms songs.
Sundowner is currently signed to Fat Wreck Chords, and his third full-length album was released on September 3, 2013.
A Sundowner, in colloquial British English, is an alcoholic drink taken after completing the day's work, usually at sundown.
The sundowner has been referenced in literature since the 1950s.
Usage examples of "sundowner".
The shed cut out within three weeks and the two sundowners took the track again, Brummy with two pounds odd in his pocket--he having negotiated his cheque at the shed.
Besides being the site of boutiques, shell shops, and an immensely popular cookie store, the Wharf was the location of the Black Pearl, the Candy Store, and the Raw Bar, watery holes where hundreds of yachties, groupies, and tourists gravitated each day to mill inside and out, sipping sundowners.
In deserts with never a tramline to follow by, The Israelite horde went roaming abroad Like so many sundowners out on the wallaby.
Sundowner could run to a bagpiper to pipe them in to the messroom table.
Now there were regular stages at each night's stop, thatched rondavels and windmills to raise water from the deep bores, servants living permanently at each station to service the rest houses, providing meals and hot baths and a log fire in the hearth on those crisp frosty nights of the Kalahari winter, even paraffin refrigerators manufacturing heavenly ice for the sundowner whisky in the fierce summer heat.
Between the sundowners, Santa Anas, and the desiccated landscape, the stage is set for the arsonist's match.
Ed planted his Vasque Sundowners on the floor, folded his arms over his chest.