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sleeper | sleepier |

As a noun sleeper

is someone who sleeps or sleeper can be (rail transport|british) a railroad tie.

As an adjective sleepier is

(sleepy).

sleeper

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who sleeps.
    • I'm a light sleeper : I get woken up by the smallest of sounds.
    She's a heavy sleeper : it takes a lot to wake her up.
  • That which lies dormant, as a law.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Therefore let penal laws, if they have been sleepers of long, or if they be grown unfit for the present time, be by wise judged confined in the execution
  • A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
  • A railroad sleeping car.
    • We spent a night on an uncomfortable sleeper between Athens and Vienna.
  • Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
    • A box-office bomb when it first came out, the film was a sleeper , becoming much more popular decades after being released.
  • A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family .
  • A nurse shark.
  • A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
    • Aaron, Devin, and Laura looked so comfy in their sleepers .
  • (slang) An automobile which, not too quick out of the factory, 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.
    • Synonyms
    * (goby-like fish)
    Antonyms
    * (automobile) cop magnet, rice burner, racecar
    Derived terms
    * sleeper agent * sleeper cab * sleeper cell

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) . See slape.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rail transport, British) A railroad tie.
  • * {{quote-book
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    • , passage = The train, minus the three abandoned trucks, again proceeded at a slow pace, with a pump trolley doing pilot ahead ; this was very necessary as a great many sleepers were found to have been burnt underneath the fishplates. }}
  • (carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists]] beneath and [[floorboard, floorboards above.
  • (nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
  • (nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
    • Synonyms
    * (horizontal member that supports railway lines) tie (US)

    Anagrams

    *

    References

    * (projectlink) English agent nouns

    sleepier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (sleepy)

    • sleepy

    English

    (wikipedia sleepy)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
  • * Dryden
    • She wak'd her sleepy crew.
  • Suggesting tiredness.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
    • At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorationsas the tree had recovered from the collision.
  • Tending to induce sleep; soporific.
    • a sleepy drink or potion
  • Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
  • * William Shakespeare
    • 'Tis not sleepy business; / But must be looked to speedily and strongly.
  • Quiet; without bustle or activity.
    • a sleepy English village

    Synonyms

    * tired * See also

    Noun

    (-)
  • (informal) The gum that builds up in the eye
  • * 1964 , Ken Kesey, Sometimes a great notion
    • "Did he always leave the sleepy in his eyes?" "Never removed it; let it build up in the comers of his eyes over the weeks until it was heavy enough to fall...
  • * 1991 , Martin Amis, London fields
    • But the nightdress was heavy, the sleepy in her eyes was heavy, her hair (she made a mustache of one of its locks) was heavy and smelled of cigarettes...