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English
Etymology
From moonlight + -er.
Noun
moonlighter (plural moonlighters)
- A person who moonlights, working a second job on the side.
- (US, regional) One who serenades by moonlight.
- A moonshiner, who makes illicit alcohol.
- (Ireland, historical) One of a gang who used violence, especially at night, to promote agrarianism in Ireland during the Land War of the late 19th century.
- (Australia) A southern Australian marine fish, Tilodon sexfasciatum.
Translations
person who works a second job
- Dutch: zwartwerker (nl) m
- French: travailleur au noir (fr) m, travailleuse au noir f, cumulard (fr) m
- German: (colloquial) Schwarzarbeiter (de) m, (colloquial) Schwarzarbeiterin (de) f, Doppelverdiener (de) m, Doppelverdienerin (de) f, Person mit Nebentätigkeit f, Mann mit Nebentätigkeit m, Frau mit Nebentätigkeit f
- Spanish: pluriempleado m, pluriempleada f
- Swedish: svartjobbare (sv) n, svartjobberska f
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