1. one who sleeps; railroad passenger car with beds; person or thing which achieves unexpected fame or success; railroad tie (British); horizontal beam or other supporting piece. ordinary device with surprising skill or power The Taurus SHO was a sleeper. It looked slow, but it was fast!. sleeper\sleep"er\ , n.
2. one who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
3. that which lies dormant, as a law. [obs.].
4. a sleeping car. [colloq. u.s.].
5. (zo?l.) an animal that hibernates, as the bear.
6. (zo?l.) (a) a large fresh-water gobioid fish (eleotris dormatrix). (b) a nurse shark. see:
under nurse.sleeper \sleep"er\, n. [cf. norw. sleip a sleeper (a timber), as adj., slippery, smooth. see:
slape.] something lying in a reclining posture or position. specifically: (a) one of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece. (b) one of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story. [u.s.] (c) (naut.) one of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter. (d) (naut.) the lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.sleeper n.
7. a rester who is sleeping [syn: slumberer].
8. a spy planted in advance for future use but not presently active.
9. an unexpected achiever of success.
10. one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track; "the british call a railroad tie a sleeper" [syn: tie, railroad tie, crosstie].
11. a passenger car that has berths for sleeping [syn: sleeping car , wagon-lit].
12. tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water [syn: sleeper goby].
13. One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
14. That which lies dormant, as a law.
15. A sleeping car.
16. An animal that hibernates, as the bear.
17. A large fresh-water gobioid fish.
18. A nurse shark.
19. See under Nurse.
20. Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
21. One of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece.
22. One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.
23. One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
24. The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks. an unexpected hit; "that movie was the sleeper of the summer" tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed a rester who is sleeping an unexpected achiever of success; "the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it" 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.
25. 1. 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.
26. 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.
27. A sleeper is a train with beds for its passengers to sleep in at night.
28. Railway sleepers are large heavy beams that support the rails of a railway track.
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