Staying awake all day to try and reset your body clock.
Normally follows after a sequence of going to sleep at increasingly later times, until your going to sleep around dinner. The only cure is to hack it through the day and go to sleep at a sensible time.
A marathon drinking session which starts around lunch-time and carries on until dawn. Typically involves barbecues and beer gardens in Summer and warm pubs and Christmas jumpers in winter.
instead of an all nighter, where as most people fall asleep as soon as morning comes around, an all dayer extends it another 24 hours. This makes it a 48 hour awake period.
The feeling one gets after pulling an all-nighter. You start to feel so tired that you aren't even tired anymore. You eventually start to feel like you are in a dream. Sometimes when under the influence of an all-dayer people might start talking to complete strangers and be completely unaware of what is going on around them. You might also feel a strange sense of happiness and confidence.
V. The opposite of an all-nighter. An all-dayer occurs when a person has odd sleeping patterns. These habits result in a person going to bed anytime during the day. An all-dayer is the act of staying awake during the day instead of going to sleep. This act is usually performed in order to maintain a regular sleep schedule.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.