How to pronounce “sleeper”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Someone who sleeps.
• 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.
• (martial arts, wrestling) A sleeper hold.
• Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
• Any of family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
• A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
• A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
• (automotive, slang) 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.
• (slang) A sedative.
• (slang, gambling) A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.
• (science fiction) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.
• [Verb]
• (rare) To mark a calf by cutting its ear.

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