sleepers
sleepers is a polysyllabic word with 2 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, sleepers is hyphenated as:
Definitions ofsleepers
- Someone who sleeps.
Example: "I'm a light sleeper: I get woken up by the smallest of sounds."
- That which lies dormant, as a law.
- A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
- A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
- A railway sleeping car.
Example: "We spent a night on an uncomfortable sleeper between Athens and Vienna."
- A sleeper hold.
- Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
Synonyms: "sleeper hit"
Example: "A box-office bomb when it first came out, the film was a sleeper, becoming much more popular decades after being released."
- A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family Odontobutidae.
- A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
- A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
Example: "Aaron, Devin, and Laura looked so comfy in their sleepers."
- An automobile which has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police.
- A sedative.
- A railroad tie.
Synonyms: tie
- A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
- A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
- The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
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