sleeper
英['sliːpə]
美['slipɚ]
- n. 卧车；卧铺；枕木；睡眠者
- n. (Sleeper)人名；(英)斯利珀
英英释意
- 1. a rester who is sleeping
- 2. a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
- 3. an unexpected achiever of success;
- "the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it"
- 4. one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track;
- "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper"
- 5. a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
- 6. a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
- 7. tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
- 8. an unexpected hit;
- "that movie was the sleeper of the summer"