Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An overnight stay or trip.
- noun One making an overnight stay or trip.
- noun Something relating to or used for overnight travel.
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- noun A person who
overnights , or stays overnight. - noun Something that serves overnight travel, such as a night train.
- noun informal A
stay orevent that takes placeovernight .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a guest who stays overnight
- noun a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bernie was about to leave for an overnighter that would bring him back on Monday evening.
I’ll Walk Alone Mary Higgins Clark 2011
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She sends him off to California after their final overnighter with the instruction to "take your head out of the sand about the past."
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The proverbial bat in the belfry, a boy trapped in a bathroom, and a witching hour wander deep into the heart of a century old tunnel provided the eerie highlights of my recent overnighter at Mina Dos Estrellas, not far from Tlalpujahua in northeastern Michoacan (see map).
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Almost anyone who travels for work has done an overnighter with just one bag (or perhaps more realistically, one bag and a laptop case), but sustaining that approach over a longer period requires a more focused approach.
Hand Luggage Only: The Big Lessons Learned | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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And with Lil Wayne, it's not just an act: The rapper is currently serving a one-year term on Rikers Island after being caught in New York with drugs and guns stashed in his Louis Vuitton overnighter.
President Obama's 'Rap Palate' Thomas Chatterton Williams 2010
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You want a casual float - can do, how about lets pack in 7 miles on an overnighter for native brookies in the smokies or wild rainbows in the cohutta, sure sounds great.
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You didn't complain about the rest area overnighter or having to put up with a visit to my in-laws.
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You want a casual float - can do, how about lets pack in 7 miles on an overnighter for native brookies in the smokies or wild rainbows in the cohutta, sure sounds great.
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The proverbial bat in the belfry, a boy trapped in a bathroom, and a witching hour wander deep into the heart of a century old tunnel provided the eerie highlights of my recent overnighter at Mina Dos Estrellas, not far from Tlalpujahua in northeastern Michoacan (see map).
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As Sash and Dan staged a vague battle over strategy, while neither has any, we cut back to the resort spa where Chase is in his two's-company-three's-an-orgy overnighter with The Golden Girls, two of the dead ones.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Jeff Probst and the 7 Dwarfed-Intellects. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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