all-nighter

See also: allnighter

English

Etymology

All-night + -er.

Noun

all-nighter (plural all-nighters)

Something that lasts throughout the whole night.
That party was an all-nighter.
(Britain, crime, slang) A session with a prostitute covering the entire night.
(Britain, crime, slang) A client of a prostitute who has paid for the entire night.
(US, crime, slang) A criminal or other person kept in jail over night.

Synonyms

(prostitute's client): see Thesaurus:prostitute's client

Derived terms

pull an all-nighter

References

“all-nighter” in Eric Partridge; Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2007, →ISBN.

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