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sleeping dragons

sleeping dragons is the plural of sleeping dragon.

Meaning of sleeping dragon

Noun

sleeping dragon (plural sleeping dragons)

  1. A tube-shaped device that protesters attach their hands to on the inside, particularly in order to attach themselves to a large object so that they cannot easily be removed from an area.
    • More ambitious acts include locking themselves to one another or to special devices, including a "sleeping dragon," a pipe cemented into a road bed into which the protestors can lock their arms.[2000 September, Thomas R. King, “Managing Protests on Public Land”, in FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, →ISSN, page 11

Questions about sleeping dragons

What is sleeping dragons the plural of?
Sleeping dragons is the plural of sleeping dragon.

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