all-nighter
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5.1
- noun
- /ɔlˈnaɪtər/
- Informal
:
noche en vela
- And I have to pull another all-nighter.
- pull all-nighters
- a couple of all-nighters
- week of all-nighters
I made my staff pull an all nighter and should be noted, they look like today.
- I made my staff pull an all nighter and should be noted, they look like today.
- I never once pulled an all nighter.
- There are times when people at Thrive have have pulled all nighters to ship a product.
- The next day I just felt like I'd done an all nighter and it didn't make sense.
- When you pull an all nighter, the all nighters impact on your brain is the equivalent to head trauma.
- So yeah, we've had a few all nighters, but it I'm I'm neither one of us have ever been the type of person to say let's just stay up all night and I can do that.
Examples
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We've just gotten back from another all-nighter.
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She had to pull an all-nighter to finish her assignment before the deadline.
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I just pulled an all nighter.
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I pulled an all nighter.
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Looks like it might be an all-nighter over here.
Fiction book (2002) -
There are times when people at Thrive have have pulled all nighters to ship a product.
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Most everybody else went to the show, but I'd pulled an all-nighter the day before, cramming for an exam.
Fiction book (1999) -
Even if you're staying up late working all-nighters, you're probably not getting that much real work done.
Blog text (32) -
So the next time you're thinking of pulling an all nighter, remember that Rome wasn't built in a day, or for that matter, one night.
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Remember the grind, Your toughest classes, your toughest tests, your biggest accomplishments, the all nighters in the library.
Antonyms
How Sleep-Deprived
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
All-nighter comes from joining all and night with the ending '-er', so it literally means 'something or someone that lasts all night' or 'one who stays up all night'. That's why an all-nighter is a night when you stay awake, often to study or work.