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sleep-out

sleep-out is the alternative form of sleepout.

Meaning of sleepout

Noun

sleepout (plural sleepouts)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A veranda or other outbuilding used as a sleeping area.
    • She could see the dark bulk of the sleepout: no lights there either.1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 111
  2. an organised group of people sleeping in the open, often as a form of protest or to raise public awareness of an issue such as homelessness.
  3. a holiday in Africa where travellers sleep away from their home, generally in an open air safari lodge, private home or guest house.

Forms of sleep-out

pluralsleep-outs

Questions about sleep-out

What is sleep-out the alternative form of?
Sleep-out is the alternative form of sleepout.

Words near sleep-out in the dictionary

  1. sleep-fucking
  2. sleep-fucks
  3. sleep-in
  4. sleep-ins
  5. sleep-learning
  6. sleep-out
  7. sleep-outs
  8. sleep-proof
  9. sleep-shorts
  10. sleep-walker
  11. sleep-walkers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sleep-out (page history and authors); sleepout (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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