sleeper
noun/ˈsliːpə(r)/
/ˈsliːpər/
- (used with an adjective) a person who sleeps in a particular way
- a heavy/light/sound sleeper
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- a person who is asleep
- Only the snores of the sleepers broke the silence of the house.
- a night train with beds for passengers on it
- the London–Edinburgh sleeper
- I came up last night on the sleeper.
- (also sleeping car)a coach on a train with beds for people to sleep in
- (British English) (North American English tie)one of the heavy pieces of wood or concrete (= a hard building material) on which the rails (= metal bars) on a railway track are laidTopics Transport by bus and trainc2
- (informal, especially North American English) a film, play or book that for a long time is not very successful and then is suddenly a successTopics Successc2, Film and theatrec2
- (also sleeper agent)a spy who is sent to live in a country as a normal citizen and is not used until much later
- The sleeper had lived in the US for two decades.
- He infiltrated a terrorist sleeper cell.
- (British English) a ring or piece of metal that you wear in an ear that has been pierced (= had a hole made in it) to keep the hole from closing
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