Sleeper

Noun

 * 1) Someone who sleeps.
 * 2) A saboteur or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
 * 3) A railroad sleeping car.
 * 4)  A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together railway lines.
 * 5) Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
 * 6) A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family Odontobutidae.  Also "sleeper goby."
 * 7) A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers its whole body, including their feet.
 * Aaron, Devin, Ryan H., Cody, Ryan O., Wade, Lisa and Laura looked so comfy in their sleepers.
 * 1) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
 * 2) An automobile which, not too quick out of the factory has been internally modified to wretched excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race.

Carpentry

1. Wood strips imbedded in concrete to provide a nailing base for the underflooring

Synonyms

 * tie (US)

Derived terms

 * sleeper cell

Thesaurus
Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Pullman, Pullman car, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, baggage car, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, boxcar, caboose, calmative, car, carriage, chair car, chloral hydrate, coach, coal car, codeine, codeine cough syrup, covered waggon, day coach, depressant, depressor, diner, dinghy, dining car, dolly, downer, drawing room, flat, flatcar, gondola, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, lie-abed, liquor, local, lotus, luggage van, mail car, mail van, meperidine, methadone, morphia, morphine, narcotic, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, palace car, paregoric, parlor car, passenger car, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, purple heart, quietener, railway car, rainbow, red, reefer, refrigerator car, roomette, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shit, sleep-inducer, sleeping beauty, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, sleepwalker, sleepyhead, slugabed, smack, smoker, smoking car, sodium thiopental, somnambulist, somnifacient, somniloquist, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, stockcar, tank, tar, tender, tranquilizer, truck, turps, van, waggon, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

Translations

 * Dutch: slaper
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Portuguese: dorminhoco, dorminhoca
 * Swedish: sovare


 * German:


 * Dutch: slaapwagen
 * Finnish: makuuvaunu
 * French:


 * German: Schlafwagen
 * Swedish: sovvagn


 * Catalan: travessa
 * Dutch: dwarsligger, biels, biel
 * Finnish:


 * German: Schwelle, Bahnschwelle , Eisenbahnschwelle
 * Swedish: syll


 * Portuguese: pijama com os patas


 * Spanish: pijama con los pies

Anagrams

 * peelers