tv. to study all night. (Literally, burn the midnight oil.) : I have a test tomorrow, and I really have to oil it tonight.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Oil itis always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
So is ort. Does it mean:
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
