Usually means: Stay awake for someone's arrival.
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  1. wait up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wait up: Merriam-Webster
  3. wait up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wait up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wait up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wait up: Wiktionary
  7. wait up: Dictionary.com
  8. wait up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wait up: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (wait up)

verb:  To stay awake waiting for somebody to return.
verb:  (colloquial, often used in the imperative, US) To wait.

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