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Someone whose social battery charges faster the later it gets.
means A person who thrives on parties and socializing, often staying energized and having the most fun well into the late hours.
from A 20th-century slang coinage built from two familiar pieces — 'party' as revelry, and the informal use of 'animal' to mean a person fiercely devoted to or defined by a particular activity, as in 'gym animal' or 'political animal' (a pattern that traces back to Aristotle's description of humans as inherently social creatures). 'Party animal' snapped into wide use in English around the 1970s-80s, riding the wave of American campus and pop-culture slang that loved pairing 'animal' with whatever someone couldn't stop doing.
- origin
- popularized 1980s, zoo metaphor for wild behavior
- myth
- not actually about liking animals
- biology
- real people, cortisol just spikes differently at night
- tell
- knows the bartender's name, not their own schedule