jacklightern.
/ˈdʒaklʌɪtə/, U.S. /ˈdʒækˌlaɪdər/ North American.
A person who uses a jacklight to illuminate, attract, dazzle, or mesmerize game (esp. deer) or fish when hunting or fishing at night; a hunter or fisherman who engages in jacklighting. Cf. lamper n. Additions 2, spotlighter n. 2.In many jurisdictions this method of hunting or fishing is restricted or prohibited by law.
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1901 Recreation May 366/2 In the judgment of the best sportsmen of to-day the hounder, jack-lighter, ferret user, dynamiter, and quail trapper are all in one class.
1931 Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald 9 Nov. 8/5 (heading) Conservation Police Enforce Law; Jacklighter Fined At Sparrowbush.
1964 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 12 Dec. 8/7 Poachers and jacklighters are being blamed by some.
1984 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Jan. (Final ed.) (Weekend section) 47 Whoever wounded the deer had followed it a long and weary way to kill it, showing him to be a cut above the ordinary jacklighter or roadhunter.
2010 Lincoln (Nebraska) Jrnl. Star (Nexis) 31 Oct. e8 No selfrespecting, red-necked, jacklighter could dream up a better rig.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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