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all-nighter
noun- an engagement between a prostitute and customer that lasts all night; a prostitute’s client who pays to stay all night UK
Also known as an “all-night”. - Prostitutes still classify their clients as “short-timers” and “all-nighters”. — John Gosling and Douglas Warner, The Shame of a City, 1960
- I can’t be takin no all night fer one fast fiver, so I start in playin roun wiff his lil ol pecker. — Robert Gover, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, p. 21, 1961
- Three hundred and fifty scoots for an all-nighter. — James Ellroy, Brown’s Requiem, p. 236, 1981
- He didn’t know if they tricked during the evening and then took an all-nighter. — Robert Campbell, Alice in La-La Land, p. 263, 1987
- any task worked on all night long, especially to meet a deadline for the following day AUSTRALIA, 1966
- She did this every time I had a deadline. I’d be in my room pulling an all-nighter, the walls would be shaking and pounding, the baboons bellowing. — John Birmingham, He Died With a Felafel in his Hand, p. 94, 1994
- a person who stays in jail all night after being arrested US
- He was isued a pallet to sleep on and locked up with twenty other all-nighters. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 97, 1992
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