to stay up
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2.4
- phrasal verb
- /steɪ ʌp/
- Informal
:
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- It's a night to stay up late.
- stay up late
- stay up all night
- make someone stay up
But she would come home and I would stay up watching SNL.
- But she would come home and I would stay up watching SNL.
- When we were on set, we used to just stay up all night long talking.
- Be like, damn, come on, stay up for an hour.
- I just can't stay up that late to be funny.
- I only take melatonin on nights where I stay up late playing MLB.
- I just remember being like I did not stay up this late for this shit.
- We would like overnight, we'd stay up all night just being dumb asses.
- And I remember staying up all night one night writing the report.
- But don't stay up all night watching YouTube videos.
- But those few times maybe I stayed up too late and forgot to wash.
- And now I feel betrayed because you've stayed up all night and watched it.
- I, I, I sat there and I, I stayed up far too late.
- Kanye went very high tech by staying up all night with a bedazzler, evidently.
- Typically on shabuis, we stay up all night studying.
Examples
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I wanted to camp with women, sing with women, stay up late with women.
Fiction book (1992) -
Last Saturday, I decided to stay up late to finish my book.
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When we were on set, we used to just stay up all night long talking.
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And I remember staying up all night one night writing the report.
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I had a similar thought in terms of like staying up late and getting work done.
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Or I can stay up with you, keep you company.
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And we can stay up all night, just talking for hours.
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We'll stay up here tonight.
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Oh my gosh, why did you let me stay up so late last night?
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I'll stay up with you.
Synonyms
170
3.6
Stay awake at home until someone comes
47
1.8
To stay awake late and not go to bed
Antonyms
How Late
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to not go to bed / remain awake' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'stay' (to remain) with 'up' (not asleep / out of bed). This verb + particle composition is a common, predictable pattern in English and has clear cross-linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Stay up shows a simple picture: you stay up, still awake and not in bed while others sleep. That's why it means 'to not go to bed' or 'to stay awake later than usual'.