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snoozer

snoozer noun: one who snoozes; a sleeper.

Noun

snoozer (plural snoozers)

  1. One who snoozes; a sleeper.
  2. (colloquial) Something that is boring, uninteresting or unremarkable; something that would tend to induce sleep.
    • The program is usually pretty good, but last Wednesday's episode was a real snoozer.
  3. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A thief who steals from hotel rooms while staying as a hotel guest.
    • […] a "snoozer," or one of those thieves who take up their quarters at hotels […]1862, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, page 242
    • A snoozer, though, was a criminal who focussed exclusively upon stealing from hotels. Snoozers were looked upon as being the aristocrats of the criminal world during much of the nineteenth century.2023, Adrian and Dawn L. Bridge, Manchester Murders and Misdemeanours

Forms of snoozer

pluralsnoozers

Origin of snoozer

From snooze + -er.

Questions about snoozer

What does snoozer mean?
Snoozer means one who snoozes; a sleeper.
What part of speech is snoozer?
Snoozer is a noun.
What is the plural of snoozer?
The plural of snoozer is snoozers.

Words near snoozer in the dictionary

  1. snoozeathons
  2. snoozed
  3. snoozed off
  4. snoozefest
  5. snoozefests
  6. snoozer
  7. snoozers
  8. snoozes
  9. snoozes off
  10. snoozetime
  11. snoozeworthy

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