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fat sleeper

fat sleeper noun: the fish Dormitator maculatus.

Noun

fat sleeper (plural fat sleepers)

  1. The fish Dormitator maculatus.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fat, sleeper.
    • He purred sonorously—like the snore of a fat sleeper or the roar of a distant railway train.1869 August, Alcibiades Jones, “Cats”, in The New Eclectic Magazine, volume 5, number 2, Baltimore: Turnbull & Murdoch, →OCLC, page 174
    • Scarcely two feet above me lay a burly, rotund traveller, of over two hundred pounds; […] The cord on which the fat sleeper's bed hung broke, and the wooden edge of the berth frame saw fit to fall on my face, with all his weight on top.1873 December, “The Pleasures and Perils of “Canal Packets.””, in The Guardian, volume 24, number 12, Philadelphia: H. Harbaugh, →OCLC, page 372

Forms of fat sleeper

pluralfat sleepers

Questions about fat sleeper

What does fat sleeper mean?
Fat sleeper means the fish Dormitator maculatus.
What part of speech is fat sleeper?
Fat sleeper is a noun.
What is the plural of fat sleeper?
The plural of fat sleeper is fat sleepers.

Words near fat sleeper in the dictionary

  1. fat shamer
  2. fat shamers
  3. fat shames
  4. fat shaming
  5. Fat Shan
  6. fat sleeper
  7. fat sleepers
  8. fat suit
  9. fat suits
  10. fat tail
  11. fat tails

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