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sleeper🔊

Someone who sleeps.

That which lies dormant, as a law.

A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.

📑 Synonyms: sleeper agent

A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.

A railway sleeping car.

(wrestling) A sleeper hold.

Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.

📑 Synonyms: sleeper hit

Any of family (family) of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.

A nurse shark (family (family)).

A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.

(slang) An automobile which 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.

(slang) A sedative.

(gambling) A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.

(science fiction) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.

(rare) To mark a calf by cutting its ear.

(British) A railroad tie.

📑 Synonyms: tie q1=US

(carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.

(nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.

(nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.