(US) An inexpensive, easily obtained handgun. / (business) An unexpected takeover bid that gives its opponents little time to respond.

(dated) A person whose occupation it was to collect the contents of chamber pots (faeces) in the morning from domestic households, principally in the 18th and 19th centuries.

(Britain) The revelry on Guy Fawkes Day (the 5th of November) in commemoration of the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, traditionally including the burning of effigies of the pope, Guy Fawkes, and/or the Devil.

Alternative spelling of Saturday-night special

(political philosophy) A government with the least necessary power over its citizens.

An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.

Constantly; ceaselessly; without stopping.

An extinct species of heron, Nycticorax megacephalus, that lived on Rodrigues in the Mascarene Islands.

plural of night-watchman state

plural of all-night-man