sleep-in

[ sleep-in ]

adjective
noun
  1. a person who sleeps in at a place of employment.

Origin of sleep-in

1
First recorded in 1950–55; adj., noun use of verb phrase sleep in

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How to use sleep-in in a sentence

  • So accustomed had we been to exposure that we could hardly sleep in-doors.

    Cast Away in the Cold | Isaac I. Hayes

British Dictionary definitions for sleep in

sleep in

verb(intr, adverb)
  1. British to sleep longer than usual

  2. to sleep at the place of one's employment

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Other Idioms and Phrases with sleep-in

sleep-in

Sleep at one's place of employment, as in They have a butler and maid who both sleep in. [First half of 1800s]

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