Usually means: Evening drink after work ends.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word sundowner:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. sundowner: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sundowner: Merriam-Webster
  3. sundowner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sundowner: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sundowner: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sundowner: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sundowner, sundowner: Wordnik
  8. sundowner: Wiktionary
  9. sundowner: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sundowner: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sundowner: Dictionary.com
  12. Sundowner (band), Sundowner (wind), Sundowner (yacht), Sundowner: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. sundowner: Rhymezone
  14. sundowner: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sundowner: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sundowner: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sundowner: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sundowner: Latitude Mexico

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noun:  (Australia, obsolete) 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.
noun:  (Australia, obsolete) An itinerant worker, a swagman.
noun:  (nautical) A sea captain who shows harsh discipline by requiring all hands to be on board by sundown.
noun:  (medicine, colloquial) A patient, usually demented, who tends to become agitated in the evening.
noun:  (originally colonial slang, especially southern Africa) A cocktail consumed at sunset, or to signify the end of the day.
noun:  A cocktail party held in the early evening.
noun:  A physician employed by the government who practises for private fees after his official hours.
noun:  Any worker who practises for private fees after official hours.

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