spend the night

idiom

Definition of spend the night

1 : to sleep for the night at a place After the party she was too drunk to drive so she spent the night. —often + at They spent the night at her brother's.

2 : to stay with someone overnight and have sex with that person —+ with She spent the night with her boyfriend.

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