sleeper

About 0.88 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Someone who sleeps.

   I'm a light sleeper: I get woken up by the smallest of sounds.

2. noun That which lies dormant, as a law.
3. noun 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. noun A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
5. noun A railway sleeping car.

   We spent a night on an uncomfortable sleeper between Athens and Vienna.

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8. noun A sleeper hold.

Similar words

slumberer tie crosstie railroad tie wagon-lit sleeping car sleeper goby sleeping sleep resting

Often followed by

and is in effect to was wakes on from

Word family

sleepers