stay up meaning

• Verb: stay up
  1. Not go to bed
     "Don't stay up so late--you have to go to work tomorrow"
     - sit up

  Derived forms: stayed up, stays up, staying up

  Type of: wake

• 
  [American slang]
  to remain awake and out of bed for some nighttime event.
    I will stay up for her arrival.
    I can't stay up that late.

• I'll stay up all night to draft this story.
• My trousers only stay up if i wear a belt.
• But we did not stay up very late.
• He could stay up nights and sleep the whole day through.
• You must stay up here.
• I am surprised some of those cheap houses stay up at all.
• At last mother relented and allowed the children to stay up and watch tv.
• I will make this radio work, even if i have to stay up all night to do it.
• She promised the children they could stay up for their favourite tv programme.
• You promised me you'd go to bed early. instead you stay up to all hours and get into street brawls.

• "stay up" meaning in Chinese: 熬夜不睡觉
• "stay up" meaning in Japanese: {句動-1} : 夜遅くまで起きている、寝ずに起きている、徹夜｛てつや｝するI stayed up until af...
• "stay up" meaning in Russian: 1) не ложиться спать Ex: she liked staying up half the nig...
• "stay up" meaning in Arabic: سهر, ظل واقفا
• "stay up" meaning in French: ne pas se coucher, veiller