Definizione monolingua

sleeper

sleeper (plural sleepers)

1. Someone who sleeps.

   Im a light sleeper, I get woken up by the smallest of sounds.

   Shes a heavy sleeper, it takes a lot to wake her up.

2. A saboteur or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
3. A railroad sleeping car.

   We spent a night on an uncomfortable sleeper between Athens and Vienna.

4. (rail transport, UK) A railroad tie.
   The short wooden bars are sleepers, and the long metal bars are railway lines.
5. 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.

6. A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family Odontobutidae. Also ""sleeper goby.""
7. A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers its whole body, including their feet.

   Aaron, Devin, and Laura looked so comfy in their sleepers.

8. A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
9. An automobile which, not too quick out of the factory has been internally modified to wretched excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race.

Definizione dizionario sleeper

	dormiente
	A woman who is sleeping.
	Someone who is sleeping.

cuccetta

dormiglione

traversina

vagone letto

Altri significati:

railroad sleeping car

someone who sleeps

A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers its whole body, including their feet.

type of pajama for a person that covers its whole body, including their feet

A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.

horizontal wooden or concrete strucutural member supporting railway lines

Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.

A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family Odontobutidae. Also "sleeper goby."

An automobile which, not too quick out of the factory has been internally modified to wretched excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race.

Someone who sleeps.

A railroad sleeping car.

A saboteur or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.

(rail transport, UK) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together railway lines.