SLEEPER

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'Sleeper' or 'sleepers' may refer to:

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Entertainment

Transportation and construction

Other uses

Entertainment

★ Sleeper hit, a work, such as a movie (sleeper film), book, or product, that obtains unexpected recognition or success

★ Sleeper (band), a Britpop band in the 1990s

★ "Sleeper" (''Buffy'' episode), an episode in the seventh and final season of ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''

★ Sleeper (comic book), a comic book published by DC Comics

★ ''Sleeper'' (film), a Woody Allen movie

★ ''Sleepers'' (film), a 1996 film

★ ''Sleepers'' (album), a solo album from Rapper Big Pooh

★ ''Sleepers'' (TV series), a British comedy-drama

★ In the ''Captain America'' comics, a sleeper referred to a giant robot that was installed by the Red Skull in Germany to sleep for twenty years and then destroy the world

★ In fantasy sports a player who is drafted late in a draft, but exceeds production from what would be expected from one drafted there.

★ An initiate member of House Dagoth in the universe of The Elder Scrolls, drafted by means of mind control, prominent in

Transportation and construction

★ In rail transport, a name for the sleeping car with beds

★ A railroad tie is also referred to as a "railway sleeper"

★ In road transport, a truck with a sleeping compartment

★ In construction and shipbuilding, a strong internal beam, especially railroad ties supporting rail tracks

★ Sleeper (car), an automobile that has any manner of modified engine, drivetrain, suspension, brakes or other parts, with the goal of improving its original performance, while still maintaining the outward appearance of a stock, factory equipped vehicle; the British term for this is Q-car

Other uses

★ Sleeper (espionage), a secret agent left long inactive

★ Sleeper (fish), a perciform fish of the family ''Eleotridae''

★ In business, synonym for sleeping partner

★ Blanket sleeper, a one-piece, footed sleeping garment

★ A type of couch, also known as a fold-out couch or hide-a-bed

★ An earring, originally one designed to be worn at night (ie while sleeping) to keep the hole in a pierced ear open. In the 1960s, small hoops were often used for this purpose, so this term is sometimes used to describe a small hoop earring. Other people use it to refer to the studs commonly used to pierce ears.

★ A Yo-yo trick, "the sleeper"

★ A sleeper hold is a type of chokehold in wrestling

★ A sleeper is a low inland dyke, obsoleted by a new dyke closer to the shore