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sleeper
sleeper is a 7-letter English word with 20 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
- 2noun
That which lies dormant, as a law.
- 3noun
A sleeping car.
- 4noun
An animal that hibernates, as the bear.
- 5noun
A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).
- 6noun
A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
- 7noun
Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.
- 10noun
One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
- 11noun
The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
- 12noun
an unexpected hit
"that movie was the sleeper of the summer"
- 13noun
tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
- 14noun
a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
- 15noun
pajamas with feet; worn by children
- 16noun
a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
- 17noun
one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
"the British call a railroad tie a sleeper"
- 18noun
a rester who is sleeping
Synonyms
- 19noun
an unexpected achiever of success
"the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it"
- 20noun
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
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