Usually means: Burning the candle at both ends.
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We found 8 dictionaries that define the word midnight oil:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. midnight oil: Merriam-Webster
  2. midnight oil: Collins English Dictionary
  3. midnight oil: Wiktionary
  4. Midnight Oil (Midnight Oil album), Midnight Oil (album), Midnight Oil, Midnight oil, The Midnight Oil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Midnight Oil: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  6. midnight oil: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Midnight oil: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. midnight oil: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (midnight oil)

▸ noun:  (slang) The drug opium.

Similar:
oowop, six o'clock swill, Lucy, wine o'clock, pingas, blow, choof, rocks, smoke-o, galah session, more...

Opposite:
daylight, morning, early hours

Phrases:
burn the midnight oil, burning the midnight oil, burned the midnight oil, burns the midnight oil, burnt the midnight oil, more...

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Similar:
oowop, six o'clock swill, Lucy, wine o'clock, pingas, blow, choof, rocks, smoke-o, galah session, more...

Opposite:
daylight, morning, early hours

Phrases:
burn the midnight oil, burning the midnight oil, burned the midnight oil, burns the midnight oil, burnt the midnight oil, to burn the midnight oil, Midnight Oil discography, The Midnight Oil, more...



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