all-nighter
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From all-night + -er = all- + night + -er.
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Noun[edit]
all-nighter (plural all-nighters)
- Something that lasts throughout the whole night.
- That party was an all-nighter.
- Specifically, an instance of studying or working throughout the night.
- (UK, crime, slang) A session with a prostitute covering the entire night.
- (UK, crime, slang) A client of a prostitute who has paid for the entire night.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostitute's client
- (US, crime, slang) A criminal or other person kept in jail over night.
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Further reading[edit]
- Eric Partridge (2007) “all-nighter”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 9.