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sleep⋅walk

  [sleep-wawk]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to engage in sleepwalking.
–noun
2. an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
Origin:
1920–25; back formation from sleepwalking
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sleep·walk   (slēp'wôk')   
intr.v.   sleep·walked, sleep·walk·ing, sleep·walks
To walk or perform other motor acts while asleep; somnambulate.

[Back-formation from sleepwalking.]
sleep'walk'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
sleepwalk

  1. n.
    a movement toward something without effort; easy advancement; an easy task. (Something that could be done in one's sleep. See also cakewalk; walk.) : Getting the degree was a sleepwalk. Getting a job was hell.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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