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ˌoverˈnighter
[f. overnight adv. phr. + -er1.]
a. = overnight bag (see overnight a. 4).
1959Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 865/1 Easier Packing... 18-inch Overniter. 1967‘S. Marlowe’ Second Longest Night vi. 58 Armed with two overnighters and the necessary toilet articles. 1967K. Giles Death in Diamonds iv. 75 One suitcase..and a little overnighter with electric razor and stuff. 1972M. Crichton Terminal Man i. v. 45 Benson placed the screwdrivers into the overnighter.
b. A person who stops at a place overnight (cf. overnight n. 2).
1961F. & R. Lockridge Murder has its Points (1962) ix. 96 At the Hotel Dumont there had, at the time in issue, been twenty-three overnighters. 1977Daily Tel. 7 June 1/1 The area approaching St Paul's Cathedral was also becoming filled with overnighters. |