sleeper

sleeper
[[t]sli͟ːpə(r)[/t]]
sleepers
1) N-COUNT: adj N You can use sleeper to indicate how well someone sleeps. For example, if someone is a light sleeper, they are easily woken up.

I'm a very light sleeper and I can hardly get any sleep at all...

Poor sleepers take longer to fall asleep than good sleepers.

2) N-COUNT In British English, a sleeper is a carriage on a train containing beds for passengers to sleep in at night, or a section of such a carriage. The usual American words are sleeping car for the carriage and roomette for the section.
3) N-COUNT A sleeper is a train with beds for its passengers to sleep in at night. [BRIT]
4) N-COUNT: oft n N Railway sleepers are large heavy beams that support the rails of a railway track. [BRIT]
(in AM, use ties)
5) N-COUNT If you describe someone or something as a sleeper, you mean that they unexpectedly become successful, often after a long period of being inactive or unknown. [INFORMAL]

...Menno Meyjes, a young Dutch writer, who had had his first success with the sleeper `The Children's Crusade'.


English dictionary. 2008.

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