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means A secret meal eaten late at night, usually in bed or after everyone's supposed to be asleep, for the sheer forbidden pleasure of it.

from A plain compound of 'midnight' (Old English midniht, simply mid+night) and 'feast' (via Old French feste, from Latin festum, 'festival day'). Neither word is exotic — the magic is entirely in the pairing: 'feast' drags in all its grand, public, holiday connotations and crams them into the smallest, most private, most illicit hour. The phrase itself belongs to the world of boarding-school stories, where it describes exactly the dormitory ritual the essence describes — contraband biscuits, torchlight, whispering, the thrill of not getting caught.