Definitions for Sleepers

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Sleepers sleep·er

Spelling: [slee-per]

IPA: /ˈsli pər/

Sleepers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in Sleepers (eeelprss).

Definitions for Sleepers

noun

1. a person or thing that sleeps.
2. a heavy horizontal timber for distributing loads.
3. Building Trades. any long wooden, metal, or stone piece lying horizontally as a sill or footing. any of a number of wooden pieces, laid upon the ground or upon masonry or concrete, to which floorboards are nailed.
4. a sleeping car.
5. Informal. something or someone that becomes unexpectedly successful or important after a period of being unnoticed, ignored, or considered unpromising or a failure:
6. merchandise that is not quickly sold because its value is not immediately recognized.
7. Often, sleepers. one-piece or two-piece pajamas with feet, especially for children.
8. bunting3 .
9. a sofa, chair, or other piece of furniture that is designed to open up or unfold into a bed; convertible.
10. Also called sleep, sand. a globule that forms at the inner corner of the eye, especially during sleep, from the accumulated secretion of the glands of the eyelid.
11. any of several gobioid fishes of the family Eleotridae, of tropical seas, most species of which have the habit of resting quietly on the bottom.
12. Slang. a spy; mole.
13. Slang. a juvenile delinquent sentenced to serve more than nine months.
14. Bowling. a pin that is hidden from view by another pin.
15. Chiefly British. a timber or beam laid in a railroad track, serving as a foundation or support for the rails; tie.

Origin of Sleepers

Middle English word dating back to 1175-1225; See origin at sleep, -er¹

Examples for Sleepers

She had not withdrawn her hand, when the sleeper opened her eyes and started.

But faced with a sleeper hit, HBO shockingly did not quite feel the same way.

For a presidential race, McCrary says Georgia will probably look like a true swing state in 2020 and could be a sleeper in 2016.

Sam Brownback—The Kansas Governor might be the sleeper in this race to crazy.

As Joe said this he stared down at the sleeper, a curious tensity in his eyes.

While he was thus engaged, the sleeper, without any starting or turning round, awoke.

The sounding thumps of his hoofs on the ground awoke the sleeper.

One night late that summer they put him aboard the sleeper for Winnipeg, and when he got off he asked for the Marlborough Hotel.

Hollywood might possibly fear North Korean sleeper cells capable of blowing up theaters that screen anti-Nork films.

So keen the blade, so soft the touch, the sleeper did not wake!