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sleeper
  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.
  12. Synonyms:
  13. Examples:
    1. “I have always been a bit of a prima donna sleeper, noise and light bother me and I have a tough time getting comfortable.”
sleep
  1. (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
  2. (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
  3. (uncountable) Rheum found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
  4. A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “She relaxed her muscles, removed all anxieties from her mind, and drifted off into a deep sleep.”
      “He regretfully had to put his terminally ill dog to sleep.”
sleeper
  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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  6. Examples:
    1. “I have always been a bit of a prima donna sleeper, noise and light bother me and I have a tough time getting comfortable.”
sleepyhead
  1. (informal) A sleepy person.
  2. The ruddy duck.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The fresh aroma of coffee was just enough to get any sleepyhead out of bed.”
      “I tend to be a sleepyhead anyway, but this was just plain, solid fatigue.”
      “The reason I'm putting you on the first watch is because you're such a sleepyhead.”
sleepwaking
  1. The state of one who is mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
sleepdriving
  1. (rare) The act of driving a vehicle while asleep and unaware of one's actions.
sleepness
  1. The state, condition, or instance of sleeping; sleep; sleepfulness.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The best style of taking a rest is the sleepness. A good, lasting sleepness helps the body quickly recover the energy that is lost.”
      “That's because Hitler would stay up all night talking to them until sleepness over took him. They certainly didn't let sleepness overtake them while Hitler was talking.”
sleeptalker
  1. A person who talks unconsciously in their sleep.
  2. Synonyms:
sleepwaker
  1. One in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
sleepaholic
  1. (informal) A person who loves sleeping or has a tendency to oversleep.
sleeptalking
sleepy
sleeplessness
  1. Lack of sleep; the property of being sleepless.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The prolonged bouts of sleeplessness were starting to affect his work.”
      “Due to his sleeplessness, John was able to stay awake and alert throughout the entire night shift at the hospital.”
      “The peak summer heat results in extraordinary mental and physical exhaustion, sleeplessness and occasionally depression.”
sleeping
  1. The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.
  2. Synonyms:
sleepfulness
  1. The quality of being sleepful.
sleepiness
  1. The property of being sleepy.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “That result suggests that the academic problems of heavy snorers in the study arose from sleepiness at school, and not from oxygen deprivation during the night.”
      “They hold to vigilance, rather than promoting slopey-shouldered sleepiness.”
      “If you cut back, your body shows signs of caffeine withdrawal, like headaches, crankiness and sleepiness.”
sleepytime
  1. (childish) The time to sleep
sleepe
  1. Obsolete spelling of sleep
sleeplessnesses
sleepaholics
  1. plural of sleepaholic
sleeptalkers
sleepwakers
  1. plural of sleepwaker
sleepyheads
  1. plural of sleepyhead
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Breakfast is served until noon, but sleepyheads run the risk of missing the lamb chops viande, which seem to sell out early.”
      “Another fun item is the use of macabre claymation models, which appear every now and again, to scarify sleepyheads.”
      “What a relief for all the sleepyheads that 2005 looks set to be more relaxed.”
sleepinesses
sleepnesses
  1. plural of sleepness
sleepings
  1. plural of sleeping
sleepers
  1. plural of sleeper
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Panhandlers and street sleepers proliferate in New York, and soup kitchen lines have become noticeably longer.”
      “The walled front garden is landscaped with a selection of shrubs and railway sleepers.”
      “Behind the locomotive is a reefer to supply ice for drinking water in the sleepers.”
sleepes
  1. plural of sleepe
sleeps
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