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sleep⋅er

  [slee-per]
–noun
1. a person or thing that sleeps.
2. a heavy horizontal timber for distributing loads.
3. Building Trades.
a. any long wooden, metal, or stone piece lying horizontally as a sill or footing.
b. any of a number of wooden pieces, laid upon the ground or upon masonry or concrete, to which floorboards are nailed.
4. a sleeping car.
5. Informal. something or someone that becomes unexpectedly successful or important after a period of being unnoticed, ignored, or considered unpromising or a failure: The play was the sleeper of the season.
6. merchandise that is not quickly sold because its value is not immediately recognized.
7. Often, sleepers. one-piece or two-piece pajamas with feet, esp. for children.
8. bunting 3 .
9. a sofa, chair, or other piece of furniture that is designed to open up or unfold into a bed; convertible.
10. Also called sleep, sand. a globule that forms at the inner corner of the eye, esp. during sleep, from the accumulated secretion of the glands of the eyelid.
11. any of several gobioid fishes of the family Eleotridae, of tropical seas, most species of which have the habit of resting quietly on the bottom.
12. Slang. a spy; mole.
13. Slang. a juvenile delinquent sentenced to serve more than nine months.
14. Bowling. a pin that is hidden from view by another pin.
15. Chiefly British. a timber or beam laid in a railroad track, serving as a foundation or support for the rails; tie.
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Origin:
1175–1225; ME; see sleep, -er 1
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bun⋅ting

3  [buhn-ting]
–noun
a hooded sleeping garment for infants.
Also called sleeper.

Origin:
1920–25; special use of bunting 1

tie

  [tahy] verb, tied, ty⋅ing, noun
–verb (used with object)
1. to bind, fasten, or attach with a cord, string, or the like, drawn together and knotted: to tie a tin can on a dog's tail.
2. to draw together the parts of with a knotted string or the like: to tie a bundle tight.
3. to fasten by tightening and knotting the string or strings of: to tie one's shoes.
4. to draw or fasten together into a knot, as a cord: to tie one's shoelace.
5. to form by looping and interlacing, as a knot or bow.
6. to fasten, join, or connect in any way.
7. Angling. to design and make (an artificial fly).
8. to bind or join closely or firmly: Great affection tied them.
9. Informal. to unite in marriage.
10. to confine, restrict, or limit: The weather tied him to the house.
11. to bind or oblige, as to do something.
12. to make the same score as; equal in a contest.
13. Music. to connect (notes) by a tie.
–verb (used without object)
14. to make a tie, bond, or connection.
15. to make or be the same score; be equal in a contest: The teams tied for first place in the league.
–noun
16. that with which anything is tied.
17. a cord, string, or the like, used for tying, fastening, binding, or wrapping something.
18. a necktie.
19. a low shoe fastened with a lace.
20. a knot, esp. an ornamental one; bow.
21. anything that fastens, secures, or unites.
22. a bond or connection, as of affection, kinship, mutual interest, or between two or more people, groups, nations, or the like: family ties; the ties between Britain and the U.S.
23. a state of equality in the result of a contest, as in points scored, votes obtained, etc., among competitors: The game ended in a tie.
24. a match or contest in which this occurs.
25. any of various structural members, as beams or rods, for keeping two objects, as rafters or the haunches of an arch, from spreading or separating.
26. Music. a curved line connecting two notes on the same line or space to indicate that the sound is to be sustained for their joint value, not repeated.
27. Also called, especially British, sleeper. Railroads. any of a number of closely spaced transverse beams, usually of wood, for holding the rails forming a track at the proper distance from each other and for transmitting train loads to the ballast and roadbed.
28. bride 2 (def. 1).
29. Surveying. a measurement made to determine the position of a survey station with respect to a reference mark or other isolated point.
—Verb phrases
30. tie down, to limit one's activities; confine; curtail: He finds that a desk job ties him down.
31. tie in,
a. to connect or be connected; be consistent: His story ties in with the facts.
b. Surveying. to establish the position of (a point not part of a survey control).
c. to make a tie-in, esp. in advertising or a sale: The paperback book is tied in with the movie of the same title.
32. tie off, to tie a cord or suture around (a vein, blood vessel, or the like) so as to stop the flow within.
33. tie up,
a. to fasten securely by tying.
b. to wrap; bind.
c. to hinder; impede.
d. to bring to a stop; make inactive.
e. to invest or place (money) in such a way as to render unavailable for other uses.
f. to place (property) under such conditions or restrictions as to prevent sale or alienation.
g. to moor a ship.
h. to engage or occupy completely: I can't see you now, I'm all tied up.
—Idioms
34. tie one on, Slang. to get drunk: Charlie sure tied one on last night!
35. tie the knot. knot 1 (def. 18).
Origin:
bef. 900; (n.) ME te(i)gh cord, rope, OE tēagh, tēgh, c. ON taug rope; (v.) ME tien, OE tīgan, deriv. of the n.; cf. ON teygja to draw. See tug, tow 1

Synonyms:
6. unite, link, knit, yoke, lock. 11. obligate, constrain. 17. rope, band, ligature. 18. cravat. 22. See bond.

Antonyms:
1. loose, loosen.
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sleep·er   (slē'pər)   
n.  

  1. One that sleeps: a heavy sleeper who was not wakened by the burglar.

  2. A sleeping car.

  3. Children's pajamas, usually with legs that cover the feet. Often used in the plural.

    1. One that achieves unexpected recognition or success, as a racehorse or movie.

    2. A spy or saboteur who is planted in an enemy country and who lives unobtrusively as a citizen of that country until activated into clandestine operations by a prearranged signal.

  5. A horizontal structural member on or near the ground that supports weight.

  6. Chiefly British A railroad crosstie.

  7. Any of various usually small marine and freshwater fishes of the family Eleotridae, related to the gobies but lacking a sucking disk and noted for their habit of lying immobile.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
sleeper

  1. n.
    a sleeping pill. : She took a handful of sleepers with a glass of booze, and that was it.
  2. n.
    someone or something that achieves fame after a period of invisibility. : The movie “Red Willow” was undoubtedly the sleeper of the year, winning six awards.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

tie  (n.)
"that with which anything is tied," O.E. teag, from P.Gmc. *taugo (cf. O.N. taug "tie," tygill "string"), from PIE *deuk- "to pull, to lead" (cf. O.E. teon "to draw, pull, drag;" see duke). Fig. sense is recorded from 1555. Meaning "equality between competitors" is first found 1680, from notion of a connecting link (tie-breaker is recorded from 1961). Sense of "necktie, cravat" first recorded 1761. The railway sense of "transverse sleeper" is from 1857, Amer.Eng. The verb is from O.E. tigan, tiegan. In the noun sense of "connection," tie-in dates from 1934. Tie-dye first attested 1904. Tie one on "get drunk" is recorded from 1951.

bunting  (2)
"type of lark-like bird," c.1300, bountyng, maybe from buntin "plump" (cf. baby bunting, also Scots buntin "short and thick;" Welsh bontin "rump," and bontinog "big-assed"), or a double dim. of Fr. bon.

sleeper 
c.1225, "one who sleeps, one who is inclined to sleep much," agent noun of sleep (v.). Meaning "railroad sleeping car" is from 1875. Sense of "something whose importance proves to be greater than expected" first attested 1892, originally in Amer.Eng,. sports jargon, probably from earlier gambling slang (1856) sense of "unexpected winning card." Meaning "spy, enemy agent, etc. who remains undercover for a long time before attempting his purpose" first attested 1955, originally in ref. to communist agents in the West.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Encyclopedia

sleeper

any of the marine and freshwater fishes of the family Eleotridae of the suborder Gobioidei (order Perciformes). Sleepers, found in warm and tropical regions, are so named because most species habitually lie quietly on the bottom. They are elongated fishes with two dorsal fins and are distinguished from most other gobies in having their pelvic fins separate, rather than joined to form a weak, rounded suction cup

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