night-tripping

English

Adjective

night-tripping (not comparable)

1. That trips or moves lightly about at night.
   • 1833, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 20:

     We shall thence pursue our course through Arabia, till we arrive at the middle-age romance of Europe, and the gorgeous realms of Fairy-land; and thence, casting a glance at the "Faerie Queene", advance to the mountains and forests of the North, there to trace the origin of the light-hearted, night-tripping elves.

Noun

night-tripping (uncountable)

1. The act of making an excursion at night.
   • 2011, James Ellroy, L.A. Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy, Random House, page 407:

     "I was given the monicker in med school, because my name was John and I did a certain amount of night-tripping."