Usually means: Unexpectedly successful, underestimated by many.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word sleeper:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. sleeper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sleeper: Merriam-Webster
  3. sleeper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sleeper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sleeper: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sleeper: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sleeper, sleeper: Wordnik
  8. sleeper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sleeper, sleeper: Wiktionary
  10. sleeper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sleeper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sleeper: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sleeper: Dictionary.com
  14. sleeper: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sleeper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sleeper (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Sleeper (Godstar album), Sleeper (Keith Jarrett album), Sleeper (Marvel Comics), Sleeper (Modern Family), Sleeper (Torchwood), Sleeper (Tribe album), Sleeper (Ty Segall album), Sleeper (band), Sleeper (car), Sleeper (comic book), Sleeper (comics), Sleeper (disambiguation), Sleeper (espionage), Sleeper (film), Sleeper (rail), Sleeper (symbiote), Sleeper (tie), Sleeper (yo-yo trick), Sleeper, The Sleeper (The Leisure Society album), The Sleeper (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sleeper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sleeper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sleeper: Rhymezone
  20. Sleeper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sleeper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Sleeper (rail): Britih-American Dictionary
  23. Sleeper: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  24. Sleeper: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. sleeper: FreeDictionary.org
  26. sleeper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. sleeper: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  5. Sleeper: Financial dictionary
  6. Glossary of Trucking Terms (No longer online)
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  8. Sleeper: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  9. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sleeper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sleeper: Castle Terms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sleeper: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Sleeper: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Sleeper (Girlfriend), The Sleeper: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Sleeper: Construction Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Someone who sleeps.
noun:  That which lies dormant, as a law.
noun:  A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
noun:  A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
noun:  A railway sleeping car.
noun:  (martial arts, wrestling) A sleeper hold.
noun:  Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
noun:  Any of family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
noun:  A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
noun:  A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
noun:  (automotive, slang) An automobile which has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police.
noun:  (slang) A sedative.
noun:  (slang, gambling) A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.
noun:  (science fiction) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.
verb:  (rare) To mark a calf by cutting its ear.
noun:  (rail transport, British) A railroad tie.
noun:  (carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
noun:  (nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
noun:  (nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
noun:  A surname.

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