stay up
— phrasal verb with stay uk/steɪ/us/steɪ/verb
B2 to go to bed later than usual:
We stayed up (late) to watch a film.
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- I stayed up to watch the Olympics on television.
- The kids were allowed to stay up till midnight on New Year's Eve.
- I'll be late home so don't stay up waiting for me.
- We stayed up till 3.00, chatting about old times.
- These days if I stay up late one night I'm exhausted the next morning.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
- awoke
- come round
- consciousness
- insomniac
- keep sb up
- knock
- land
- morning person
- not sleep a wink idiom
- rise
- rise and shine! idiom
- sit up
- stay
- stir
- toss
- wait up
- wake (sb) up
- waking
- woke
- woken
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UK If a football team stays up, it remains in a division and is not relegated (= moved down to a lower division):
I think all the newly-promoted clubs have a great chance of staying up this season.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Football/soccer
- 18-yard box
- 2 3 5
- 4 3 2 1
- 4 4 2
- 4 5 1
- crossbar
- feint
- footballing
- futsal
- game 39
- game ball
- ghost goal
- give-and-go
- relegation
- Roy of the Rovers stuff
- scissor kick
- seal dribble
- shin guard
- shin pad
- stoppage
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