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What does sleeper mean?

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Noun
  1. Someone who sleeps.
  2. That which lies dormant, as a law.
  3. A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
  4. A railroad sleeping car.
  5. Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
  6. A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family Odontobutidae.
  7. A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
  8. A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
  9. (slang) An automobile which, not too quick out of the factory, has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police.
  10. (slang) A sedative.
  11. A small starter earring.
Verb
  1. (rare) To mark a calf by cutting its ear.
Noun
  1. (rail transport, Britain) A railroad tie.
  2. (carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
  3. (nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
  4. (nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
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