sleeper : Idioms & Phrases


Light sleeper

  • one easily wakened.
Webster 1913

sleeper cell

  • noun a cell of sleepers
    • an al-Qaeda sleeper cell may have used Arizona as its base
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sleeper goby

  • noun tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
    sleeper.
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sleeper nest

  • noun a nest of sleepers awaiting a prearranged signal
    • sleeper nests of Islamic terrorists were capable of launching major attacks in Europe
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