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weekˈender
1. One who spends the week-ends away from home.
1880N. & Q. Ser. vi. I. 42 Lodging-house keepers and tradesmen in Llandudno, Rhyl, and other holiday resorts in n. Wales, employ the derivative form ‘week-enders’..when they speak of..visitors who come on Saturday and go on Monday. 1901C. G. Harper Gt. North Road I. 144 Three bedrooms for the use of the week-enders. 1905Sat. Rev. 14 Oct. 490/1 Saturday morning is quite time enough for the week-enders to get away.
2. a. A week-end cottage (see week-end 2 a). colloq.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 81 Weekender, a week⁓end holiday cottage or shack. 1967E. Hunt Danger Game iii. 59 He had a week-ender at Palm Beach and a lovely car. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 16 June 10-c/5 (Advt.), Small, clean..home in Red Lodge. Perfect weekender any season. 1983Austral. Women's Weekly Aug. 21/2 There is, says Pauline, constant confusion over..shacks and holiday homes. ‘A shack in NSW is a tumbledown wreck. In NSW you have a weekender.’
b. A bag large enough to carry everything needed for a week-end away from home; a week-end bag. U.S. colloq.
1961Harper's Bazaar June 24/2 A capacious week⁓ender in pale coffee-bean hide. 1980TWA Ambassador Oct. 99/1 You'll use the Kluge Bag like a week-ender too, because it's just as easy to carry on and a whole lot better.
Add:3. A person who indulges in occasional drug-taking, esp. at weekends. slang (orig. U.S.).
1955H. Braddy in Amer. Speech XXX. 89 The metonym weekender for an occasional user of drugs. 1970Times 23 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. iv, The..clinic..studied amphetamine abusers..and ran into..‘weekenders’ (spasmodic drug-takers) who needed ‘speed’ to get through school and personal crises.
4. A small pleasure boat, esp. one designed for private use at weekends.
1966in Random House Dict. 1975J. Gores Hammett xix. 132 Sharp-prowed racing sloops and thick-waisted weekenders flashed dripping flanks at them, mostly from moorings. 1988Motor Boat & Yachting Oct. 135/1 It is a..powerful open-cockpit weekender: the sort of craft that would be bought by someone with a Mediterranean holiday home who wants a boat for day trips, with only the occasional night spent aboard. |