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

1. noun. One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
2. noun. That which lies dormant, as a law.
3. noun. A sleeping car.
4. noun. An animal that hibernates, as the bear.
5. noun. A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).
6. noun. A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
7. noun. Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
8. noun. 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.
9. noun. One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.
10. noun. One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
11. noun. The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
12. noun. an unexpected hit

    "that movie was the sleeper of the summer"

13. noun. tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
14. noun. a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
15. noun. pajamas with feet; worn by children
16. noun. a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
17. noun. one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track

    "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper"

    Synonyms: crosstie, tie

18. noun. a rester who is sleeping

    Synonyms: slumberer

19. noun. an unexpected achiever of success

    "the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it"

20. noun. 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

Synonyms

crosstie, tie, slumberer

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sleeper:

peelers

Common word forms

sleepers, sleepered

Words from these letters

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