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sleep-in

sleep-in

5.6
An organized event where people stay overnight to protest and ask for change
  • noun
  • /ˈsliːpˌɪn/
translation icon : acampada nocturna
  • He felt numb and exhausted; it seemed like he hadn't had a good night's sleep in months.

Examples

  • The community held a sleep-in at the city hall to demand better housing for the homeless.

  • They're there to like sleep in a tent one night and go along with the cause for sure.

  • Work, the studying, four hours a night's sleep in a dungeon.

    Rudy (1993)

  • For example, the other day I told him to grab Weston in the morning so I could have a sleep in and his response was what about my sleep in?

  • After breakfast, I got a couple more hours of sleep in the Golden Spike Hotel, and then it was time to get to the ballpark for our doubleheader.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Lloyd Jacobson was organizing a sleep-in outside a local homeless shelter to raise awareness for the issue.

  • During the protest, many people joined the sleep-in under the stars to draw attention to climate change.

Synonyms

sit-in
vssleep-in
16 4.9

A protest where people sit in a place and refuse to leave

stays overnight at a place mainly to draw public attention

Surface Forms

sleep-in singular
sleep-ins plural

Morphology

sleep-in = sleep (semi-transparent) = in + sleep

The parts suggest sleeping in a place, but the specific protest-event sense is only partly predictable and depends on the established pattern of words like 'sit-in'. [Postprocessing: moved 'in' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Sleep-in joins sleep and in, in the same way as the protest phrase sit-in, so you can picture people staying 'inside' and sleeping at a place as a public action. That's why a sleep-in means an organized overnight event where people stay and sleep to draw attention or protest.