sleeper
Other forms: sleepers
A sleeper is something that succeeds when no one thought it would. That low-tech movie about shark attacks that you shot on vacation and edited in your basement? It could be a sleeper if you market it in the right way.
You probably know that sleeper can be used in an obvious sense to refer to someone who is asleep. But you also may hear the word used to describe something that becomes an unexpected success, like "a sleeper of a film" featuring unknown actors that ends up becoming the big summer hit. This sense of the word may have originated in the world of gambling in the nineteenth century. When a card player unexpectedly drew a winning card, the card was called "a sleeper."
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a rester who is sleeping
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synonyms:
slumberer
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dreamer
someone who is dreaming
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Rip van Winkle
a person who sleeps a lot
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sleeping beauty
a person who is sleeping soundly
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noctambulist, sleepwalker, somnambulist
someone who walks about in their sleep
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snorer
someone who snores while sleeping
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somniloquist
someone who talks while asleep
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type of:
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rester
a person who rests
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a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
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synonyms:
sleeping car, wagon-lit
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type of:
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carriage, coach, passenger car
a railcar where passengers ride
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carriage, coach, passenger car
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a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
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type of:
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article of furniture, furniture, piece of furniture
furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy
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article of furniture, furniture, piece of furniture
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pajamas with feet; worn by children
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an unexpected achiever of success
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an unexpected hit
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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
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type of:
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diversionist, saboteur, wrecker
someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
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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
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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
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diversionist, saboteur, wrecker
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one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
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synonyms:
crosstie, railroad tie, tie
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tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
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synonyms:
sleeper goby
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type of:
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percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
Vocabulary lists containing sleeper
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