Sleeper

Quick meaning: Sleeper is a noun meaning Someone who sleeps.

Meaning

Someone who sleeps.

More Meanings

1. That which lies dormant, as a law.
2. A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
3. A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
4. A railway sleeping car.
5. (martial arts, wrestling) A sleeper hold.
6. Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
7. Any of family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.

Example Sentences

She's a heavy sleeper: it takes a lot to wake her up.

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

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

A box-office bomb when it first came out, the film was a sleeper, becoming much more popular decades after being released.

Word Forms

• sleepers
• sleepering
• sleepered

Synonyms for sleeper

Depending on context, synonyms include tie, slumberer, crosstie, wagon-lit.

Antonyms for sleeper

Common opposites include racecar.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slumberer, tie, crosstie, wagon-lit, sleeping, sleep.

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