0 to go to bed later than usual: --
We stayed up (late) to watch a film.
1 If a football team stays up, it remains in a division and is not relegated (= moved down to a lower division): --
I think all the newly-promoted clubs have a great chance of staying up this season.
These days if I stay up late one night I'm exhausted the next morning.
We stayed up till 3.00, chatting about old times.
I'll be late home so don't stay up waiting for me.
The kids were allowed to stay up till midnight on New Year's Eve.
I stayed up to watch the Olympics on television.
NIEUWE WOORDEN
European
May 10, 2021
WOORD VAN DE DAG
Shimmer
stay up