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sleep camels

sleep camels is the plural of sleep camel.

Meaning of sleep camel

Noun

sleep camel (plural sleep camels)

  1. (idiomatic, slang) A person who habitually does with little to no sleep during the week and then makes up by sleeping a lot during the weekend.
    • No wonder, then, that so many take their laptops to the beach or that 'sleep camels', as they call them in Silicon Valley, those who sleep only at weekends, are becoming more common.2001, Charles B. Handy, The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist, Harvard Business School Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 100

Questions about sleep camels

What is sleep camels the plural of?
Sleep camels is the plural of sleep camel.

Words near sleep camels in the dictionary

  1. sleep apnoea
  2. sleep apnoeas
  3. sleep around
  4. sleep black
  5. sleep camel
  6. sleep camels
  7. sleep cap
  8. sleep caps
  9. sleep debt
  10. sleep debts
  11. sleep deficit

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