Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SLEEPER
SLEEPER
Definitions of SLEEPER
- Someone who sleeps.
- That which lies dormant, as a law.
- 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 small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
- A railway sleeping car.
- Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
- A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
- (science fiction) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.
- (martial arts, wrestling) A sleeper hold.
- A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
- (slang) A sedative.
- (slang, gambling) A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.
- (rare) To mark a calf by cutting its ear.
- (rail transport, British) A railroad tie.
- (carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
- (nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
- (nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
- A surname.
- Any of family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
- (automotive, slang) An automobile which 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.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Search for SLEEPER in:
Examples of Using SLEEPER in a Sentence
- Making enough money on this and other ventures to realize his sleeper railcar dream, Pullman returned east in the mid-1860s, and the ranch continued as an important way station through subsequent proprietors including three generations of Jefferson County Sheriffs.
- Although Reidsville has experienced economic recession in recent years the community has enjoyed a renewal of growth as a sleeper city supplying a source of rural development for the surrounding larger cities.
- Phillips was killed in a train wreck, when the Pullman sleeper he was resting in on a siding was struck by a passing train.
- Rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep or REMS) is a unique phase of sleep in mammals (including humans) and birds, characterized by random rapid movement of the eyes, accompanied by low muscle tone throughout the body, and the propensity of the sleeper to dream vividly.
- Smith to Donald Douglas, when Smith persuaded a reluctant Douglas to design a sleeper aircraft based on the DC-2 to replace American's Curtiss Condor II biplanes.
- The most common role of sleeper ships in fiction is for interstellar or intergalactic travel, usually at sub-light speed.
- The SJ overnight train services (Swedish: SJ Nattåg) are Rc locomotive-hauled trains with both sleeper wagons as well as standard wagons.
- Under the auspices of their commander, Park Mu-young (Choi Min-sik), they will be sent into South Korea as sleeper agents, to be reactivated at some later date.
- Instead of hot meals prepared on the train and served to diners in the dining car, sleeper passengers were now served a selection of primarily cold pre-packaged boxed meals, served in a "Sleeper Lounge".
- Some grey seal carcasses have washed ashore with visible “cookie cutter” bite marks, a telltale sign of attack by a Greenland shark (also called the sleeper shark).
- Pacific sleeper sharks, which are thought to be both predators and scavengers, can glide through the water with little body movement and little hydrodynamic noise, making them successful stealth predators.
- After spending the night sleeping in his seat on a train trip from Buffalo to Westfield, New York, George Pullman was inspired to design an improved passenger railcar which contained sleeper berths for all its passengers.
- The first, with telepath Talia Winters, is non-sexual and largely implied, though after Talia is revealed as an unwilling sleeper agent and her subsequent departure from Babylon 5, Ivanova admits to possibly loving her.
- It was a sleeper hit, grossing over $53 million worldwide, and started a franchise centered on the antihero Riddick.
- McDevitt is concerned a phony advanced degree could be the first step for someone in a terrorist sleeper cell.
- The C-97 was developed into the civilian Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, a transoceanic airliner that could be fitted with sleeper cabins and featured a lower deck lounge.
- Noted for his booming, raw vocal presence on various hip hop songs, he was best known for his guest performances on the 2005 singles "Lose Control" by Missy Elliott and "It's Like That" by Mariah Carey, as well as his 1999 sleeper hit single, "Be Faithful" (featuring the Crooklyn Clan), which topped the UK Singles Chart in 2003.
Page preparation took: 265.85 ms.
