Skip to main content
Urban Dictionary Merch
Your favorite words on things you can wear, drink from, read, or give to a friend.
The Urban Dictionary Store sells gifts you’ll have to explain.

midnight crisis

when it's midnight and you realise you should start hauling ass to finish your homework
Had a 12 page paper due tomorrow but ended up texting bae all night. I then faced a midnight crisis when I looked at my grades

Midnight crisis

When you wake up realizing your guts are on fire and you need to use the bathroom but the only bathroom in the house is locked so you either poop yourself or break into a neighbor’s house to drop your bomb
Sorry about the window joe but a midnight crisis is a midnight crisis

Midnight crisis

When a person falls into a state of panic or crisis during the night. Usually triggered by one useless thought, the midnight crisis is common when the person is failing in trying to sleep.
Example of a midnight crisis
"Are you ok?"
"What am I doing with my life? Why am I here?"
"All I said was what did you do today"

midnight crisis

a situation where someone in their 40's goes on a rampage of nightclubbing and partying to make up for time lost in their 20's and 30's when they concentrated on their career.
Joe is going out again - talk about a midnight crisis
midnight crisis by Eric Domeier December 26, 2007

Midnight crisis

The feeling and du sequent thoughts that arise when you lie awake in the middle of night. They always end in thinking that tomorrow when you wake up you will change your way of life. Basically like a New Years Resolution but it’s created by lack of sleep, not alcohol.
Oh you look terrible

Yeah, I couldn’t sleep and had a midnight crisis last night
Midnight crisis by kaigomai September 13, 2022
More from Urban Dictionary

trucker's tan 

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.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
Word of the Day on October 5, 2026
Load more