slept in; sleeping in; sleeps in
1
: to sleep where one is employed
2
a
b
: to sleep late intentionally
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Selome Hailu, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2024
It’s had an incalculable impact on us all and will live on in our hearts, seep through our skin and sleep in the deepest parts of our imaginations.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
After a day of Janine avoiding Gregory, the two finally start to hash it out during a sleep-in field trip at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
Verb
Book From $292 per night Overnight in a Grain Silo in Kalispell, Montana
Add some farm feels to your mountain-town escape by sleeping in a converted grain silo with views of Montana’s peak-laden Flathead Valley.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2024
It’s had an incalculable impact on us all and will live on in our hearts, seep through our skin and sleep in the deepest parts of our imaginations.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Sleep-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleep-in. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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