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sleepy sand en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Sleep (rheum around the eyes).
    • Sleep in your eyes, sleep crust, sand, eye gunk—whatever you call it, we all get it—that crusty stuff in the corners of your eyes when you wake up in the morning. "The medical term is 'rheum,' though you rarely hear it used," […] 2018 January 3, Moran Eye Center, “Is That Morning 'Eye Gunk' Normal?”, in HealthFeed Blog, University of Utah Hospital, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2020:
  2. (uncountable) The sand or dust that the Sandman throws in people's eyes.
  3. (uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sleepy, sand.