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Overnighter
noun, slang
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Noun
- 1 A person who overnights, or stays overnight.
"1981, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I was totally unprepared (my "padding," my apartment) for an overnighter, but I invited him."
- 2 a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight wordnet
- 3 Something that serves overnight travel, such as a night train.
- 4 a guest who stays overnight wordnet
- 5 A stay or event that takes place overnight. informal
"To tackle the narrative challenge of Cave’s extreme isolation (for most of the winter he’s confined to a tiny hut, lacking even the sun for solace), Harding populates his solitude through reveries of his marriage to a Danish woman, whose pregnancy and calamitous labor make his own ordeal look, at least for a while, like an overnighter in the Adirondacks."
Etymology
From overnight + -er.
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