Usually means: Accumulated deficit from insufficient sleep.
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  2. Sleep debt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sleep debt)

▸ noun:  The cumulative effect of not obtaining enough sleep, especially as seen as able to be made up for by sleeping more than usual.

Similar:
sleep deprivation, sleep dep, slumberlessness, lack of sleep, semisomnia, unsleep, insomnolence, dead sleep, sleep-in, sleep, more...

Opposite:
sleep surplus, rested, refreshed, energized

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Similar:
sleep deprivation, sleep dep, slumberlessness, lack of sleep, semisomnia, unsleep, insomnolence, dead sleep, sleep-in, sleep, more...

Opposite:
sleep surplus, rested, refreshed, energized



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