sleeper
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(noun) tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water |
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Synonyms: sleeper goby |
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Related Words: percoid, percoid fish, percoidean |
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(noun) a person who is sleeping |
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Synonyms: slumberer |
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Related Words: Rip van Winkle, dreamer, human, individual, mortal, noctambulist, person, sleeping beauty, sleepwalker, snorer, somebody, someone, somnambulist, somniloquist, soul |
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(noun) a passenger car that has berths for sleeping |
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Synonyms: sleeping car, wagon-lit |
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Related Words: carriage, coach, passenger car |
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(noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track; "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper" |
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Synonyms: crosstie, railroad tie, tie |
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Related Words: brace, bracing |
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