Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instance of a child spending the night at another child's house.
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- noun the act of
spending thenight as aguest in another'shouse , especially theparticipants arechildren - noun an
overnight guest
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an occasion of spending a night away from home or having a guest spend the night in your home (especially as a party for children)
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Examples
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(Next sleepover is in two weeks time with Pa and Nanna Pam while we go to a wedding.)
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(Next sleepover is in two weeks time with Pa and Nanna Pam while we go to a wedding.)
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But the good thing about the sleepover is that the three of them just went off and did stuff.
Less like a manhole cover katelnorth 2008
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Wait a minute - how the heck do you define the word sleepover anyway?
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Wait a minute - how the heck do you define the word sleepover anyway?
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Wait a minute - how the heck do you define the word sleepover anyway?
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Wait a minute - how the heck do you define the word sleepover anyway?
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Wait a minute - how the heck do you define the word sleepover anyway?
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After feeding the dogs lunch and taking them on another walk, they chose Kemma for a "sleepover" - an introductory experience for the dog and its potential adoptive family at an animal-friendly motel so they could get to know each other.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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Kathz: I thought I had read all Sayers, but that one must have slipped through - the sleepover was a bust - grrr.
My thyroid doctor is happy, which scares me. Elizabeth McClung 2007
john commented on the word sleepover
Ohio is an election battleground state with perennial problems at the polls. So what have election officials in some precincts of the state been doing to keep their voting machines safe from tampering?
Taking the machines home with them and stashing them in their garages in the days before a big election.
If it sounds like something pulled straight out of an episode of Saturday Night Live, or Borat for that matter, it’s not. The practice has become so widespread that it even has a nickname, “sleepovers.�?
The New York Times, Mom, Can My Voting Machine Spend the Night?, by Anahad O'Connor, August 19, 2008
August 20, 2008
reesetee commented on the word sleepover
I don't know about you, but I feel much safer knowing that a total stranger is taking home the voting machine--where no one else can see it for about 12 hours. Eesh.
August 20, 2008