Usually means: Mentally tallying sheep to sleep.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. counting sheep: Wiktionary
  2. Counting Sheep (Safia song), Counting sheep: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Counting Sheep: The Word Detective
  4. Counting sheep: TheFreeDictionary.com
  5. Counting sheep: Phrase Finder

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  1. Counting sheep: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Counting sheep: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Counting sheep: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Counting sheep: Idioms

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  1. Counting Sheep: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Counting sheep)

noun:  a mental exercise used in some Western cultures as a means of putting oneself to sleep.


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