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snoozer en · NOUN

Etymology

From snooze + -er.

Meanings

1. One who snoozes; a sleeper.
2. (colloquial) Something that is boring, uninteresting or unremarkable; something that would tend to induce sleep.
   • The program is usually pretty good, but last Wednesday's episode was a real snoozer.
3. (UK, obsolete, qualifier:thieves' cant) A thief who steals from hotel rooms while staying as a hotel guest.
   • 2023, Adrian and Dawn L. Bridge, Manchester Murders and Misdemeanours A snoozer, though, was a criminal who focussed exclusively upon stealing from hotels. Snoozers were looked upon as being the aristocrats of the criminal world during much of the nineteenth century.
   • […] a "snoozer," or one of those thieves who take up their quarters at hotels […] 1862, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, page 242:

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