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单词 all-nighter
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all-nightern.

Brit. /ˌɔːlˈnʌɪtə/, U.S. /ˌɔlˈnaɪdər/, /ˌɑlˈnaɪdər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: all adj., -nighter comb. form.
Etymology: < all adj. + -nighter comb. form.
1.
a. A social event or party which lasts through the night.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > other parties
play-party1796
tail1837
surprise-party1840
street party1845
costume party1850
pound party1869
all-nighter1870
neighbourhood party1870
simcha1874
ceilidh1875
studio party1875
pounding1883
house party1885
private function1888
shower1893
kitchen shower1896
kitchen evening1902
bottle party1903
pyjama party1910
block party1919
house party1923
after-party1943
slumber party1949
office party1950
freeload1952
hukilau1954
BYOB1959
pot party1959
bush party1962
BYO1965
wrap party1978
bop1982
warehouse party1988
rave1989
1870 Little Corporal Feb. 25/2 There is to be a stunning time tonight, a regular all nighter, you know.
1967 Melody Maker 28 Jan. 11 ‘It's an all-nighter,’ he revealed. ‘And I want you to play three 45 minute spots.’
1988 O. Clark Diaries (1998) p. lix The all-nighter in Wardour St, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.
2004 Metro 10 Dec. (London ed.) 31/4 Hum presents a breakbeat, house and tech-funk all-nighter guaranteed to keep going until the ‘break’ of dawn.
b. Originally: an act of hiring a prostitute for the whole night; a night spent with a prostitute. Later also more generally: a session of lovemaking which lasts the whole night; a night of passion.
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1955 C. H. Rolph Women of Streets vi. 89 Janet told me proudly, ‘I earned £12 on Saturday night—an all-nighter—set my alarm three hours fast and kicked him out early.’
1965 R. Moore Green Berets iv. 133 Colonel Ling was coming into town Wednesday for an all-nighter with Co Binh.
1978 J. Wambaugh Black Marble xi. 247 She felt like telling him it would be the last all-nighter until he accepted impending middle age.
1984 A. Maupin Babycakes (1989) xlii. 279 Should I stop and tell him about my all-nighter with the rock widow?
2001 S. P. Moore Sweetest Gift xi. 155 Oh, you have thoughts of me the day after an all-nighter with another girl.
c. Originally U.S. An activity or task that takes all night to complete or is worked on through the night. Frequently in to pull an all-nighter: to work or study all night, esp. in order to prepare for an examination or meet a deadline.
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the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] > task that takes all night
all-nighter1968
the world > action or operation > undertaking > [noun] > an undertaking > thing(s) to be done > a (difficult) task > task which takes all night
all-nighter1968
1968 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) Summer 11 Pull an all nighter, to stay up all night studying for an exam or writing a paper.
1969 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) Spring 3 All-nighter, a long, difficult job; a cram session.
1984 Nutshell (Gainesville, Florida) Spring 88/3 Don't let schoolwork pile up into an interminable string of all-nighters.
1993 Globe & Mail Rep. on Business Apr. 462 The bleary-eyed salespeople are not pulling all-nighters, but they are struggling to keep up.
2003 Roanoke (Va.) Times (Nexis) 16 Dec. nrv3 For some, final exams mean all-nighters fueled by caffeine and junk food.
2. Originally U.S.
a. A person who stays up all night, esp. attending a party, frequenting a club, etc.; a person who has been up all night; (in early use) spec. = rounder n.2 1d.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > stealers of animals > [noun] > robber of nests
nest robber1866
all-nighter1892
1892 C. S. Boutcher Whist Sketches ii. iii. 123 He is an all-nighter at the game.
1894 Outing 24 440/2 A gay young bravo, one of New York's many ‘rounders’, or all-nighters.
1899 A. W. Woolet Woolet Papers 145 He is a first nighter at the theatres, and an all nighter at the clubs.
1930 B. Maine Rondo i. ii. 38 There are some who profess to find excitement in encountering unusual incidents and people in the early morning, street cleaners with their spraying fans of water, all-nighters on the Embankment, lurking policemen, despairing prostitutes.
1986 J. Hobhouse November 22 He listened for the sounds that would place him in the morning in New York..the thump..as the papers, bound in nylon rope, hit the sidewalk, farewell shouts of the all-nighters.
2005 New Yorker 5 Sept. 111 A few early risers and ashenfaced all-nighters were already gathered in front of the café hostess.
b. A restaurant, shop, etc., which stays open all night.
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1894 Amer. Druggist 25 Oct. 312/2 There is nothing to command business after midnight, and many of the all-nighters will probably follow.
1902 G. B. McCutcheon Castle Craneycrow i. 5 ‘This is a fairly good eating house,’ observed the would-be victim as they came to an ‘all-nighter’.
1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xxvi. 330 Ever' place you look is restaurants... Lookit that all-nighter there.
1986 R. Campbell In La-la Land we Trust x. 73 Nobody [there] except the counterman in the all-nighter.
1992 Spin Feb. 47/3 The Kitchen was the other important club in town, an illegal all-nighter on the top floor of a Hulme housing estate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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