night court

1. 1.

   a criminal court (in large cities) that sits at night

   Broadercriminal court

   law

Questions about night court

What does night court mean?

night court means "a criminal court (in large cities) that sits at night".

Is night court a common word?

night court is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.