Usually means: Stays awake late into night.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word night owl:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. night owl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. night owl: Merriam-Webster
  3. night owl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. night owl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. night owl: Collins English Dictionary
  6. night owl: Wordnik
  7. night owl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. night-owl, night owl: Wiktionary
  9. night owl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. night owl: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. night owl: Dictionary.com
  12. night owl: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Night Owl (Gerry Rafferty song), Night Owl (James Taylor song), Night Owl (album), Night Owl (disambiguation), Night Owl (film), Night Owl (train), Night Owl, Night owl (person), Night owl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. night owl: Rhymezone
  15. night owl: FreeDictionary.org
  16. night owl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. night owl: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. night owl: Vocabulary.com
  19. night-owl: Wordnik

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. night owl: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. night owl: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. night owl: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. night owl: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See night_owling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (night owl)

noun:  (literally) An owl (order Strigiformes) that is nocturnal.
noun:  (idiomatic) One who goes to bed late, or stays up late at night or in the early hours of the morning.
noun:  (music) A musical instrument which imitates an owl's hoot, consisting of a receptacle partly filled with water and a mouthpiece that is blown into.

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