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Rip Van Winkle
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Rip Van Win⋅kle

  [rip van wing-kuhl]
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–noun
1. (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
2. (italics) the story itself, published in The Sketch Book (1819).
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Rip Van Winkle 
"person out of touch with current conditions," 1829, from name of character in Washington Irving's "Sketch Book" (1819-20).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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