SLEEPER
Sleeper
Sleeper is a 1973 futuristic science fiction comedy film, written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, and directed by Allen. The plot involves the adventures of the owner of a health food store who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 and defrosted 200 years later in an ineptly-led police state. The film contains many elements which parody notable works of science fiction.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Sleeper (1973 film)
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sleeper
Noun
- Someone who sleeps.
- I'm a light sleeper: I get woken up by the smallest of sounds.
- She's a heavy sleeper: it takes a lot to wake her up.
- 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 railroad sleeping car.
- We spent a night on an uncomfortable sleeper between Athens and Vienna.
- Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
- A box-office bomb when it first came out, the film was a sleeper, becoming much more popular decades after being released.
- A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family ''''. Also "sleeper goby."
- A nurse shark.
- A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
- Aaron, Devin, and Laura looked so comfy in their sleepers.
- An automobile which, not too quick out of the factory, 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.
Noun (etymology 2)
- A railroad tie.
- A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
- A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
- The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
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