sleeper
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sleep·er
(slē'pər) 
n.
n.
- One that sleeps: a heavy sleeper who was not wakened by the burglar.
- A sleeping car.
- Children's pajamas, usually with legs that cover the feet. Often used in the plural.
- One that achieves unexpected recognition or success, as a racehorse or movie.
- A spy or saboteur who is planted in an enemy country and who lives unobtrusively as a citizen of that country until activated into clandestine operations by a prearranged signal.
- A horizontal structural member on or near the ground that supports weight.
- Chiefly British. A railroad crosstie.
- Any of various usually small marine and freshwater fishes of the family Eleotridae, related to the gobies but lacking a sucking disk and noted for their habit of lying immobile.
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Barron's Business Dictionary:
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sleeper
Stock in which there is little investor interest but that has significant potential to gain in price once its attractions are recognized.
Sleepers are most easily recognized in retrospect, after they have already moved up in price.
Sleepers are most easily recognized in retrospect, after they have already moved up in price.
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Roget's Thesaurus:
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sleeper
noun
- A dazzling, often sudden instance of success: hit. Informal smash, smash hit, ten-strike, wow. Slang boff, boffo, boffola. See thrive/fail/exist.
1. One of a number of horizontal timbers that are laid on a concrete slab (or on the ground) and to which the flooring is nailed.
2. Any long horizontal beam, at or near the ground, which distributes the load from posts or framing.
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sleeper
1. n. a sleeping pill. She took a handful of sleepers with a glass of booze, and that was it.
2. n. someone or something that achieves fame after a period of invisibility. The movie "Red Willow" was undoubtedly the sleeper of the year, winning six awards.
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IN BRIEF: n. - Pajamas with feet.
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categories related to 'sleeper'
- Building and Machine Parts - sleeper: wood member attached to concrete floor as base for wood floor
- Types of Trains, Cars, and Lines - sleeper: sleeping car
- Nightclothes and Dishabille - sleeper: child’s pajamas with attached foot coverings
- General Sports Terminology
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A sleeper is a person who is sleeping. It may also refer to:
Entertainment
- Sleeper hit, a work that obtains unexpected recognition or success
Music
- Sleeper (band), a Britpop band in the 1990s
- The Sleepers (San Francisco band), a punk/post-punk band active from 1978 until 1981
- The Sleepers (Chicago band), an American rock band formed in 2002
- Sleepers (album), a solo album from rapper Big Pooh
- Sleeper (Tribe album), by American alternative rock band Tribe
- Sleeper (Godstar album)
- Sleeper (Everyday Sunday album)
Films
- Sleeper (film), a 1973 Woody Allen film
- Sleeper (2005 film), a 2005 Austrian/German film
- Sleeper (2009 film), an action/thriller film starring Scott Levy and Bruce Hopkins
- Sleeper (2012 film), a horror/thriller film starring Brittany Belland, Jessica Cameron and John Bloom, and directed by Justin Russell
- Sleepers (film), a 1996 film based on the novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Television
- "Sleeper" (Buffy episode), from the seventh and final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- "Sleeper" (The New Avengers episode), from the first season of The New Avengers
- "Sleeper" (Torchwood), an episode from Series 2 of the series Torchwood
- "Sleepers" (Sanctuary), an episode fron the second season of Sanctuary
- Sleepers (TV series), a British comedy/drama
- An extraterrestrial in the U.S. TV series The Event
Other
- Sleeper (comic book), published by DC Comics
- Sleepers, a 1995 novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra
- The Sleeper (Wild Cards), a character in the Wild Cards science fiction series who periodically hibernates, awakening each time in a new body
- The Sleeper, the main antagonist in Gothic (computer game)
- Sleeper, the Japanese name for the Pokémon Hypno
Transportation
- Sleeper bus, designed to carry fewer passengers in greater comfort
- Sleeper (car), an automobile that has been modified to improve its performance without changing its outward appearance; the British term for this is Q-car
- Sleeper truck, a truck with a sleeping compartment
- Sleeping car, a railway passenger car with beds
- Railway sleeper, a railroad tie
Biology
- Sleepers or sleeper gobies, the common names for fish belonging to the family Eleotridae
- Sleeper cichlid, perch-like member of the genus Nimbochromis
Other uses
- Le Sommeil (The Sleepers), a painting by Gustave Courbet
- The Sleepers (New Hampshire), a pair of mountain peaks in the United States
- Sleeper, a sleeping partner in business
- Sleeper, a strong internal beam (structure) in construction and shipbuilding
- Sleeper dike, a low inland dike, made obsolete by a newer dike closer to shore
- Sleeper agent, a secret agent or similar operative left long inactive
- Blanket sleeper, a one-piece, footed sleeping garment
- Sleeper couch, also known as a fold-out couch or hide-a-bed
- Sleeper earring, originally designed to be worn while sleeping to keep the hole in a pierced ear open
- Sleeper hold, a rear naked choke hold used in professional wrestling
- "The sleeper", a yo-yo trick
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Sleeper
Dansk (Danish)
n. - sovevogn, svelle, sovende, sovevognskupe, sovepille, underligger, uventet succes
Nederlands (Dutch)
slaapwagon, slaaptrein, slaper, onopgemerkte gebeurtenis, vervelend stuk, biels, dwarsligger
Français (French)
n. - dormeur, traverse, (Rail) couchette, wagon-lit, voiture-lit, train-couchettes, (GB) dormeuse, (US) succès à retardement, espion en sommeil
Deutsch (German)
n. - Schlafwagen, Schlafwagenplatz, Schläfer, Ohrstecker, Schwelle
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κοιμώμενος, στρωτήρας/τραβέρσα σιδηροτροχιάς, κλινάμαξα, βαγκόν-λι, κουκέτα κλινάμαξας, (Βρετ.) προσωρινό τρυπητό σκουλαρίκι, (καθομ.) υπνωτικό χάπι, απροσδόκητη επιτυχία
Italiano (Italian)
spettacolo noioso, vagone letto, treno cuccette, dormiglione, traversa
Português (Portuguese)
n. - dorminhoco (m), dormente
Русский (Russian)
спящий, пижама, что-л. неожиданно получившее широкое признание, животное, впадающее в спячку
Español (Spanish)
n. - coche-cama, tren de literas, durmiente, persona que duerme, traviesa
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sovande, sovvagn, sovplats, sliper, syll, plötslig, oväntad succé, sömntablett, sömnpiller
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
睡眠者, 卧铺, 枕木
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 睡眠者, 臥鋪, 枕木
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 잠자는 사람, 침대차, (어린이 용의) 잠옷
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 眠る人, 寝台車, 根太, まくら木
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) ألراقد, ألنائم, عارضه خشبيه تتخذ اساسا لخط ألسكه ألحديديه, عربه ألنوم في قطار
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ישנן, ישן, קרון-שינה, אדן, קורה, עגיל זמני, דבר המצליח לאחר שלא הורגש, חליפת-שינה, מרגל רדום, ספה נפתחת
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