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n. A weekend extended by one or more days off falling on the days that surround it.
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Long Weekend may refer to:
- Long weekend, in Western countries, a three-day weekend
- The Long Week-End, a 1940 social history of Britain between the World Wars, by Robert Graves and Alan Hodge
In film and television:
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Long Weekend (1978 film), an Australian horror film
- Long Weekend (2008 film), an Australian remake of the 1978 film
- The Long Weekend, a 2006 Canadian film starring Chris Klein and Brendan Fehr
- The Long Weekend (O' Despair), a 1989 film directed by Gregg Araki
- "Long Weekend" (Mad Men), an episode of Mad Men
- "The Long Weekend" (American Dragon: Jake Long), an episode of American Dragon: Jake Long
Long Weekend (released on video in the U.S. as Nature's Grave) is a 2008 Australian psychological horror film and the remake of the 1978 Australian film Long Weekend. It was directed by Jamie Blanks.
Long Weekend is an Australian horror film shot in 1977 and first shown in 1978. The film was directed by Colin Eggleston and stars John Hargreaves and Briony Behets.
"Long Weekend" is the tenth episode of the first season of the American television drama series Mad Men. It was written by Bridget Bedard, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton and series creator Matthew Weiner. The episode was directed by Tim Hunter. The episode originally aired on the AMC channel in the United States on September 27, 2007.
Usage examples of "long weekend".
Fortunately it's a long weekend this week so I'll inform them Monday and draft his reprimand then.
The week limped quietly into the long weekend and it was on that Saturday that Glenn realized her pager hadn’.
Then, last July, I was invited for a long weekend at their country house here.
SEAN The last time I saw my father had been in March when I met him in New York for a long weekend to celebrate my twenty-first birthday.
It was time for me to go back also, because it had now been ten days since I impulsively set out for a long weekend, but I wasnt ready to leave.
If MI6 were planning on bringing new charges, they would do it on a Friday afternoon, meaning a long weekend in the police cells until a Monday court appearance.
He knew he had a long weekend ahead, two and a half days of monotonous and time-consuming poring over cards, each bearing the basic details of one of the forty-five hundred public companies registered at Companies House in the City of London.