sleepover

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Smith kidnapped Carlie as she walked home from a little girl friend ` s house after a sleepover, a Saturday afternoon, Super Bowl -- Sunday afternoon, Super Bowl Sunday.

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  1. noun An instance of spending the night as a guest at another's home.
  2. noun An overnight guest.

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  • Sally seemed to think she'd been invited to some version of a teenage sleepover, the girls making fudge at midnight with their hair in curlers, trying out dance steps and lurid shades of nail polish. —  Incubus
  • Smith kidnapped Carlie as she walked home from a little girl friend ` s house after a sleepover, a Saturday afternoon, Super Bowl -- Sunday afternoon, Super Bowl Sunday. —  CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2006
  • They're apparently not having a sleepover, as some had reported earlier, but they did have some friends over. —  CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2009
  • They were having a sleepover -- about to have a sleepover at Taylor ` s house and they go up and down this country road, out where they live. —  CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2008
  • The final member to join the sleepover was the milkman whose float got stuck in the early hours of Tuesday morning. —  The Guardian World News
 

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