ALL meanings of sleep around
sleep a·round
S s - intransitivephrasal verbs sleep around have casual sex 1
- verb without object sleep around to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake. 1
- verb without object sleep around Botany. to assume, especially at night, a state similar to the sleep of animals, marked by closing of petals, leaves, etc. 1
- verb without object sleep around to be dormant, quiescent, or inactive, as faculties. 1
- verb without object sleep around to be careless or unalert; allow one's alertness, vigilance, or attentiveness to lie dormant: While England slept, Germany prepared for war. 1
- verb without object sleep around to lie in death: They are sleeping in their tombs. 1
- verb with object sleep around to take rest in (a specified kind of sleep): He slept the sleep of the innocent. 1
- verb with object sleep around to accommodate for sleeping; have sleeping accommodations for: This trailer sleeps three people. 1
- verb with object sleep around to spend or pass in sleep (usually followed by away or out): to sleep the day away. 1
- verb with object sleep around to recover from the effects of (a headache, hangover, etc.) by sleeping (usually followed by off or away). 1
- noun sleep around the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps. 1
- noun sleep around a period of sleeping: a brief sleep. 1
- noun sleep around dormancy or inactivity. 1
- noun sleep around the repose of death. 1
- noun sleep around sleeper (def 10). 1
- idioms sleep around put to sleep, to put (an animal) to death in a humane way: to put a sick old dog to sleep. 1
- phrasal verb sleep around If you say that someone sleeps around, you disapprove of them because they have sex with a lot of different people. 0
- verb sleep around to be sexually promiscuous 0
- noun sleep around to have promiscuous sexual relations 0