"midnight oil" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: En-au-midnight oil.ogg
Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} midnight oil (uncountable)
  1. (slang) The drug opium. Wikidata QID: Q46452 Tags: slang, uncountable
    Sense id: en-midnight_oil-en-noun-en:Q46452 Synonyms: aunti/aunti Emma, big O, chandu [China, India], Chinese tobacco, dopium, dream gun, dream stick, fi-do-nie, gee, God's medicine, gondola, goric, guma, hop/hops, meconium [obsolete], midnight oil, mud, ope, pen yan, pin gon, pox, skee, toxy, when-shee, yen, ze, zero
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: lamp oil burned at midnight. Tags: uncountable Related terms: burn the midnight oil
    Sense id: en-midnight_oil-en-noun-en:literal Categories (other): &lit not valid pagename, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 63 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 35 65 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 34 66
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