wait up
— phrasal verb with wait uk/weɪt/us/weɪt/verb [ I ]
to not go to bed at night because you are expecting someone to arrive:
I'll be home after midnight, so don't wait up for me.
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Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
- awoke
- be in the land of the living idiom
- come round
- consciousness
- insomniac
- keep sb up
- knock
- land
- morning person
- not sleep a wink idiom
- rise
- rise and shine! idiom
- sit up
- stay
- stir
- toss
- wake (sb) up
- waking
- woke
- woken
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