wait up

verb

1. to delay going to bed in order to await some event
2. informal.
   to halt and pause in order that another person may catch up

Example Sentences

His supporters hosted a men-only fundraiser with this admonition on the invitation: “Tell the misses not to wait up.”

From The Daily Beast

Don't you worry about nothing; give her a latchkey, and don't wait up.

From Project Gutenberg

The old one was to lock the door behind us, and wait up with my mother.

From Project Gutenberg

You and I will wait up there in the hills on the off-chance of picking up some news.

From Project Gutenberg

I believe Terence Murphy used to wait up till the small hours, lest by chance his master should come unannounced.

From Project Gutenberg

I made up my mind that when I was a man I would wait up till calf or child had come.

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