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short sleepers

short sleepers is the plural of short sleeper.

Meaning of short sleeper

Noun

short sleeper (plural short sleepers)

  1. A person who consistently requires substantially less sleep every day than the customary amount for most people of the same age and developmental level.
    • The demonstration that the short sleeper phenotype can be reverted in these lines by transposon jumping indicates that a single gene is likely to be involved.2004, Pierre-Hervé Luppi, Sleep: Circuits and Functions, →ISBN, page 158

Questions about short sleepers

What is short sleepers the plural of?
Short sleepers is the plural of short sleeper.

Words near short sleepers in the dictionary

  1. short shrifts
  2. short sight
  3. short six
  4. short sixes
  5. short sleeper
  6. short sleepers
  7. short snorter
  8. short snorters
  9. short spar
  10. short spars
  11. short squeeze

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