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sleepers en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only) Alternative form of sleeper.
In this third volume of a set that will encompass the 50-year run of the strip, Linus stops crawling and starts walking. He’s not yet the intellectual/theologian he will become, but he’s no longer a baby in sleepers.
2005 May 8, Charles Solomon, “The blueprint in newsprint”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2026:WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE PAIR OF SLEEPERS I BOUGHT FOR LITTLE SALLY..
1959 June 9, [Charles Monroe] Schulz, “Peanuts”, in Victoria Daily Times, volume 126, number 134, Victoria, B.C.: Times Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 5:One entertainer that small children love is Roger Riddle. A pudgy man pretending to be a child, sloppily dressed in sleepers, he talks back to his unseen parents, fighting to stay up late.
1970 December 6, Mel Gussow, “Children’s Theater Found Better Suited for Parents”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
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(form-of, plural) plural of sleeper
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