Saturday nightern.

1880 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 5 Nov. 5/6 This evening we are to be shown how Louis XI. should be acted, and then the Saturday nighters are to be treated to ‘The Gamester’ and ‘Don Cæsar’.

1882 Indiana (Pa.) Progress 15 June The young lady in question and her mother were among the boarders at one of the large hotels..and among the regular ‘Saturday-nighters’ was a friend of the family.

1904 A. Bennett Great Man xiii. 135 Henry belonged to the Saturday-nighters, to the section which calls a bath a bath, not a tub, and which contrives to approach godliness without having to boast of it on frosty mornings.

1907 Eng. Illustr. Mag. June 293/1 Her father was a ‘Saturday-nighter’—that is to say, he got drunk every Saturday night.

1912 A. H. Lewis Apaches N.Y. 228 Nor could he..be called a pleasure smoker [of opium] nor a Saturday nighter. Mike had the habit.

1919 T. Burke Out & About London 136 Into the private bar of the ‘Green Dragon’ or the ‘White Horse’, and compare notes with other Saturday-nighters and condemn the beer.

1966 Listener 24 Mar. 422/2 Half the population of Korea was inside, too..all of us lapping up James Bond like Surbiton Saturday nighters.

1975 Economist (Nexis) 21 June 62 Most of the Observer's 150 full-time production staff and 400-odd Saturday-nighters did no work for The Times.

2000 H. Glickman Whitey's Kid vi. 65 The gathering of several hundred Saturday nighters stopped dancing and crowded close to the heavenly sounds, anxious not to miss a golden note.