Definder - what does the word mean?

What is burn the midnight oil?

To stay up smoking the marijuana rather than sleeping. Usually followed by an attack of the munchies, resulting in a loss of snack food.

"I'm sorry i fell asleep in your class, Professor, but I was up all night burning the green midnight oil."

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burn the midnight oil - video

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Burn the midnight oil - what is it?

to stay up all night doing work. often homework.

i burned midnight oil last night but slept in coz i was too tired

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What does "burn the midnight oil" mean?

Make coffee to stay awake

Boil some water, I'll be burning the midnight oil and I take my coffee black.

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Burn the midnight oil - what does it mean?

To do hard drugs(cocaine, heroin meth, etc)

Dustin burning the midnight oil.

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Burn the midnight oil - meaning

A clever way to ask your 420 friendly fuck buddy to come over late at night, do some dabs, and fuck like rabbits.

Similar to Netflix and chill.

And. . . It doesn't count if you're just smoking weed. Dabs only. kk?

Guy: Hey what r u doing?
Girl: Not much, just bored :-(
Guy: You wanna come over and burn that midnight oil?
Girl: Ummmm. . . Sure. . . why not? I haven't been high all day ;-)

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Burn the midnight oil - definition

To burn the midnight oil implies working overtime or working over normal capacity.

"Looks like we're going to have to pull an all-nighter today. We're going to be burning the midnight oil."

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Burn the midnight oil - slang

To stay up all night working. Apparently some drop the "the", though this must be rare.

Man Bob, you must have really burned the midnight oil on this one!

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Burn the midnight oil

to work diligently, especially late into the night

I had to burn the midnight oil to get that done.

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