moonlight
/ˈmunˌlaɪt/ verb C2- To do a moonlight flit: to secretly leave premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon.
- To do work for pay (sometimes illegally, secretly, or without paying income tax on the earnings) which is in addition to a main job, often in the evening or at night.
- To engage in an activity other than what one is known for.
- Of a thing: to perform a secondary function substantially different from a supposed primary function.
He/she/it moonlights · Past moonlighted · Past participle moonlighted · -ing form moonlighting
Verb forms
- Base form
- moonlight
- He/she/it
- moonlights
- Past
- moonlighted
- Past participle
- moonlighted
- -ing form
- moonlighting
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The moonlight was blocked out of the mouth of the cave, for Shere Khan’s great square head and shoulders were thrust into the entrance.
Sometimes a mother would push her cub far out into the moonlight to be sure that he had not been overlooked.
At last--and Mother Wolf’s neck bristles lifted as the time came--Father Wolf pushed “Mowgli the Frog,” as they called him, into the center, where he sat laughing and playing with some pebbles that glistened in the moonlight.
At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moonlight.
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