sleeper

Definition of sleeper

Nouns

a rester who is sleeping
Synonyms:
slumberer
Types:
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dreamer
someone who is dreaming
Rip van Winkle
a person who sleeps a lot
sleeping beauty
a person who is sleeping soundly
noctambulist, sleepwalker, somnambulist
someone who walks about in their sleep
snorer
someone who snores while sleeping
somniloquist
someone who talks while asleep
Type of:
rester
a person who rests
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
Type of:
diversionist, saboteur, wrecker
someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
spy, undercover agent
(military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
terrorist
a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities
an unexpected achiever of success
"the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it"
Type of:
achiever, succeeder, success, winner
a person with a record of successes
one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
"the British call a railroad tie a sleeper"
Synonyms:
crosstie, railroad tie, tie
Type of:
brace, bracing
a structural member used to stiffen a framework
a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
Synonyms:
sleeping car, wagon-lit
Type of:
carriage, coach, passenger car
a railcar where passengers ride
pajamas with feet; worn by children
Type of:
jammies, pajama, pj's, pyjama
(usually plural) loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers
a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
Type of:
article of furniture, furniture, piece of furniture
furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy
tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
Synonyms:
sleeper goby
Type of:
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
an unexpected hit
"that movie was the sleeper of the summer"
Type of:
bang, hit, smash, smasher, strike
a conspicuous success

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Words that contain sleeper

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