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snooze off

snooze off verb: to drift off; to fall asleep.

Verb

snooze off (third-person singular simple present snoozes off, present participle snoozing off, simple past and past participle snoozed off)

  1. (intransitive) To drift off; to fall asleep
    • But lately, he'd been tossing about all day, too exhausted to get proper sleep, and only snoozed off toward the last hour.1977, Herman Spector, Bastard in the Ragged Suit
  2. (transitive) To sleep off
    • Let us imagine that the stomach in question belongs to your uncle Embry, snoozing off his Christmas banquet on his bed1985, Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes

Forms of snooze off

third-person singular presentsnoozes off
present participlesnoozing off
past participlesnoozed off
pastsnoozed off

Questions about snooze off

What does snooze off mean?
Snooze off means to drift off; to fall asleep.
What part of speech is snooze off?
Snooze off is a verb.
What is the past tense of snooze off?
The past tense of snooze off is snoozed off.

Words near snooze off in the dictionary

  1. snoozathon
  2. snoozathons
  3. snooze
  4. snooze button
  5. snooze buttons
  6. snooze off
  7. snooze-fest
  8. snoozeathon
  9. snoozeathons
  10. snoozed
  11. snoozed off

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