all-nighters
- 1Plural of all-nighter.
Back-to-back all-nighters left the whole team exhausted by Friday morning.
He swore off all-nighters after his grades and health both started slipping.
Note
The -s attaches to the end of the whole compound, after nighter, so the hyphen stays and all never changes. Most plurals mean repeated nights of studying or working without sleep, but the form carries every sense of the singular. In UK slang it can mean night-long sessions with a prostitute, or the clients who paid for them. In US slang it can mean people kept in jail overnight. Context usually settles which is meant.
all-nighters is a form of all-nighter
all-nighter, noun: A period of studying or working that lasts the whole night, with no sleep. Full entry
- Forms
- all-nighterall-nighters plural
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