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- noun informal
Sleep .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Twenty minutes of shut-eye will cost me fourteen bucks, and I can order a snack for delivery right after I sleep.
Peter Mandel: The World's Toughest Trip? It's Trying to Go Home Peter Mandel 2011
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Twenty minutes of shut-eye will cost me fourteen bucks, and I can order a snack for delivery right after I sleep.
Peter Mandel: The World's Toughest Trip? It's Trying to Go Home Peter Mandel 2011
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Lack of sleep is so widespread that NIH has an entire unit, the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, devoted in part to figuring out why Americans aren't getting enough shut-eye.
An insomniac learns to make the most of getting the least sleep Laura Hambleton 2011
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A pang of sadness twisted in my gut and I told it to shut the hell up, ambling back to my bedroom to try to catch a few more hours of shut-eye.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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However, I took it as an opportunity to catch a little shut-eye.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Diagnosis: Breast Cancer -- My World Stopped Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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But, even though the patch would be sold as a prescription, it wouldn't surprise me to see people getting their hands on it without trying other sleep hygiene tactics first, which can be far more effective and healthier overall for the body, particularly for those of us that can really get our shut-eye at night.
Dr. Michael J. Breus: Something New in Melatonin? Dr. Michael J. Breus 2010
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The damn earache has been waking me up as soon as I can get shut-eye, so that only exacerbates the problem.
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For one night, there's the prospect of 60 fewer minutes of shut-eye, but ahead are many months with an extra hour of evening sunlight.
Daylight Savings Time 2011: Don't Forget To Set Your Clocks The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Or at least bored you to a yawn and some shut-eye. lol
"This is my dream. I make the path." readingthedark 2010
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However, I took it as an opportunity to catch a little shut-eye.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Diagnosis: Breast Cancer -- My World Stopped Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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