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sundowner

noun as in disciplinarian

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After the rain ended, we took a bottle of wine to a slab of granite rock just beyond camp for a sundowner.

The news of his return spread quickly and several officials dropped in for a "sundowner."

He longed each night for the usual "sundowner," but had determined not to open his one remaining bottle, in case of accident.

Sundowner: (Historical) A swagman who arrives at a place too late for work, but looking for food and/or shelter.

It was no sundowner, not even a man from Boonara, out on the jag, who had wandered in a half-frenzied condition so many miles.

An old sundowner, chancing to pass along the road, stopped in the hopes of a yarn.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sundowner, such as: enforcer, authoritarian, bully, despot, master, and sergeant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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