sleeper
n. 睡眠者, 枕木, 卧铺 [法] 睡眠者, 懒人, 死人
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Someone who sleeps.
I'm a light sleeper: I get woken up by the smallest of sounds.
She's a heavy sleeper: it takes a lot to wake her up.
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That which lies dormant, as a law.
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A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
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A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
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A railway sleeping car.
We spent a night on an uncomfortable sleeper between Athens and Vienna.
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A sleeper hold.
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Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
A box-office bomb when it first came out, the film was a sleeper, becoming much more popular decades after being released.
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Any of family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
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A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
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A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
Aaron, Devin, and Laura looked so comfy in their sleepers.
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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.
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A sedative.
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A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.
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A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.
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A railroad tie.
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A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
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A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
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The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
航海 交通
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To mark a calf by cutting its ear.
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From Middle English sleper, equivalent to sleep + -er.
来源：wiktionary