"Tonight is a work night"

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[FONT=&#48148]Source : https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Work night&defid=9800761#9800761
1) [FONT=&#44404]The night[/FONT] before a [FONT=&#44404]work[/FONT][FONT=&#44404][/FONT] [FONT=&#44404]day[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=&#48148]ex)"[FONT=&#44404]Tonight[/FONT][FONT=&#44404][/FONT] is a [FONT=&#44404]work night[/FONT][FONT=&#44404][/FONT]"

If "work night" is the night before a working day, what about "tonight is a working night"?
Does "working night" mean "the night when you have to work"?[/FONT][FONT=&#54620]
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Many of my friends refer to Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings as "a school night", meaning they have to get up for work the next day.
 

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That was my parents when I was of school age (long ago). Except it was a school night for me.
 

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We still use it despite us all being way over school age and none of us having kids.
 
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