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Sleeper   /slˈipər/   Listen
Sleeper

noun
1.
A rester who is sleeping.  Synonym: slumberer.
2.
A spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal.
3.
An unexpected achiever of success.
4.
One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track.  Synonyms: crosstie, railroad tie, tie.
5.
A passenger car that has berths for sleeping.  Synonyms: sleeping car, wagon-lit.
6.
Pajamas with feet; worn by children.
7.
A piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed.
8.
Tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water.  Synonym: sleeper goby.
9.
An unexpected hit.



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"Sleeper" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Nothing very interesting. Special sleeper, some convention crowd for Bridgeport, came in on the north branch. We've got to pick our way ...
— Ralph on the Overland Express - The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer • Allen Chapman
... had returned to the side of the sleeper, and employed himself snapping at the greedy flies, yapping impatiently to keep them ...
— In the Roaring Fifties • Edward Dyson
... in vain! that sleeper never woke. His murderer fled, but on his brow was fixed A stain which baffled wear and washing. As he fled A voice pursued him to the wilderness: ...
— The Canadian Elocutionist • Anna Kelsey Howard
... Primrose, 'I never saw such a sleeper. He'll be sound asleep, sound and fast; not dreaming nor stirring; and if there comes the least little sound that there oughtn't to be, he's up and broad awake and in possession of all ...
— Wych Hazel • Susan and Anna Warner
... again in a most business-like way, lay down, pulled a blanket up round his ears, turned his back to the light and was presently breathing with the sweet and steady regularity of a perfectly sound and sincere sleeper. ...
— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance


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