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fat sleeper

noun

Definitions

  1. The fish Dormitator maculatus.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fat, sleeper.

    • He purred sonorously—like the snore of a fat sleeper or the roar of a distant railway train.
    • Scarcely two feet above me lay a burly, rotund traveller, of over two hundred pounds; […] The cord on which the fat sleeper's bed hung broke, and the wooden edge of the berth frame saw fit to fall on my face, with all his weight on top.

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