"pull an all-nighter" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-pull an all-nighter.ogg [Australia] Forms: pulls an all-nighter [present, singular, third-person], pulling an all-nighter [participle, present], pulled an all-nighter [participle, past], pulled an all-nighter [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} pull an all-nighter (third-person singular simple present pulls an all-nighter, present participle pulling an all-nighter, simple past and past participle pulled an all-nighter)
  1. (idiomatic, informal) To stay awake throughout the night, usually when working or studying. Tags: idiomatic, informal Categories (topical): Night Synonyms: burn the midnight oil, elucubrate Translations (work throughout the night): ⁧سهر طول الليل⁩ (Arabic), 開夜車 (Chinese Mandarin), 开夜车 (kāi yèchē) (english: to drive the night car) (Chinese Mandarin), een nachtje doorhalen (Dutch), een nacht doorhalen (Dutch), lucubreren (Dutch), valvoa yötä myöten (Finnish), passer une nuit blanche (French), eine Nachtschicht einlegen (note: literally "to work on a night shift") (German), éjszakázik (Hungarian), végigdolgozza az éjszakát (Hungarian), 徹夜する (tetsuya suru) (alt: てつやする) (Japanese), døgne (Norwegian Bokmål), døgne (Norwegian Nynorsk), zarwać noc [informal] (Polish), passar a noite em claro (Portuguese), virar a noite (Portuguese), fazer uma direta [informal] (Portuguese), труди́ться всю ночь напролёт (trudítʹsja vsju nočʹ naproljót) (Russian), trasnochar (Spanish), pasar la noche en claro (Spanish), dygna (Swedish), โต้รุ่ง (Thai), sabahlamak (Turkish)

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      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "⁧سهر طول الليل⁩"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "開夜車"
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      "english": "to drive the night car",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "work throughout the night",
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      "sense": "work throughout the night",
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      "sense": "work throughout the night",
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      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "valvoa yötä myöten"
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "passer une nuit blanche"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "literally \"to work on a night shift\"",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "eine Nachtschicht einlegen"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "éjszakázik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "végigdolgozza az éjszakát"
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      "alt": "てつやする",
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      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "徹夜する"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "døgne"
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      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "døgne"
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      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "zarwać noc"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "passar a noite em claro"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "virar a noite"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "fazer uma direta"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "trudítʹsja vsju nočʹ naproljót",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "труди́ться всю ночь напролёт"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "trasnochar"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "pasar la noche en claro"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "dygna"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "โต้รุ่ง"
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      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "work throughout the night",
      "word": "sabahlamak"
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  "word": "pull an all-nighter"
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