Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. To get rid of (a pain, illness, condition) by sleeping.
WordNet 3.0
- v. get rid of by sleeping
Examples
“There are two lockups in Wexton, used mostly for DUIs who need to sleep off a bender; I have been in the one on the left myself.”
“I didn’t say it out loud; my mind was busy on getting to my own room to wash my sex-funky ass and sleep off that nut before our flight back to Newark in the morning.”
“At dusk, Frol and Alobar returned to their cottage to sleep off the food and drink, but long after their candles had been extinguished, lights flickered in the homes of others, as well as in the community lodge, from which laughter and song poured most of the night.”
“Excise House occupied the end of a block between the square and Princes Street upon which desirable avenue Mr. Thomas Cave’s house was situated, and Richard soon discovered that the Excise Men of Excise House were slugs who used their desks to sleep off their hangovers, especially on a Monday.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sleep off’.
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phrasal verbs: OFF
work off, laugh off, kick off, write off, tell off, sleep off, clock off, ease off, rattle off, tick off, fall off, dash off and 35 more...
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phrasal verbs
Arguably, a nightmare for non-native speakers of English
splash out, opt out, zero in on, wind sb up, kick back, freak out, tell off, carry away, sleep off, lash out, shy away, live off and 16 more...
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