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▸  sleep off PHRASAL VERB If you sleep off the effects of too much travelling, drink, or food, you recover from it by sleeping. □ [V P n] It's a good idea to spend the first night of your holiday sleeping off the jet lag. □ [V n P ] They had been up all night and were sleeping it off.

▸  sleep over PHRASAL VERB If someone, especially a child, sleeps over in a place such as a friend's home, they stay there for one night. □ [V P ] She said his friends could sleep over in the big room downstairs.

▸  sleep together PHRASAL VERB If two people are sleeping together , they are having a sexual relationship, but are not usually married to each other. □ [V P ] I'm pretty sure they slept together before they were married.

▸  sleep with PHRASAL VERB If you sleep with someone, you have sex with them. □ [V P n] He was old enough to sleep with a girl and make her pregnant.

sleep|er /sliː pə ^r / (sleepers )

1 N‑COUNT [adj N ] You can use sleeper to indicate how well someone sleeps. For example, if someone is a light sleeper , they are easily woken up. □  I'm a very light sleeper and I can hardly get any sleep at all.

2 N‑COUNT In British English, a sleeper is a carriage on a train containing beds for passengers to sleep in at night, or a section of such a carriage. The usual American words are sleeping car for the carriage and roomette for the section.

3 N‑COUNT A sleeper is a train with beds for its passengers to sleep in at night. [BRIT ]

4 N‑COUNT [oft n N ] Railway sleepers are large heavy beams that support the rails of a railway track. [BRIT ] in AM, use ties

sleep|ing /sliː p I ŋ/

1 ADJ [ADJ n] You use sleeping to describe places where people sleep or things concerned with where people sleep. □  On the top floor we have sleeping quarters for women and children.

2 → see also sleep USAGE sleeping or asleep?

Don’t use asleep in front of a noun. Don’t, for example, talk about an ‘ asleep child ’. Instead, you can say a ‘sleeping child ’.

slee p|ing bag (sleeping bags ) N‑COUNT A sleeping bag is a large deep bag with a warm lining, used for sleeping in, especially when you are camping.

slee p|ing car (sleeping cars ) N‑COUNT A sleeping car is a railway carriage containing beds for passengers to sleep in at night.

slee p|ing gi ant (sleeping giants ) N‑COUNT If you refer to someone or something as a sleeping giant , you mean that they are powerful but they have not yet shown the full extent of their power. [JOURNALISM ] □ [+ of ] The trust, which has 2.3 million members, is a sleeping giant of the environment movement.

slee p|ing pa rt|ner (sleeping partners ) N‑COUNT A sleeping partner is a person who provides some of the capital for a business but who does not take an active part in managing the business. [BRIT , BUSINESS ] in AM, use silent partner

slee p|ing pill (sleeping pills ) N‑COUNT A sleeping pill is a pill that you can take to help you sleep.

slee p|ing sick|ness N‑UNCOUNT Sleeping sickness is a serious tropical disease which causes great tiredness and often leads to death.

slee p|ing tab|let (sleeping tablets ) N‑COUNT A sleeping tablet is the same as a sleeping pill .

sleep|less /sliː pləs/

1 ADJ [usu ADJ n] A sleepless night is one during which you do not sleep. □  I have sleepless nights worrying about her.

2 ADJ Someone who is sleepless is unable to sleep. □  A sleepless baby can seem to bring little reward.

sleep|over /sliː poʊvə ^r / (sleepovers ) also sleep-over N‑COUNT A sleepover is an occasion when someone, especially a child, sleeps for one night in a place such as a friend's home.