sleeper
Nouns
- (n) a rester who is sleeping slumberer,
- (n) a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
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(n) an unexpected achiever of success
- the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it
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(n) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- the British call a railroad tie a sleeper
- (n) a passenger car that has berths for sleeping sleeping car, wagon-lit,
- (n) pajamas with feet; worn by children
- (n) a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
- (n) tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water sleeper goby,
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(n) an unexpected hit
- that movie was the sleeper of the summer