sleepover

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Now if a sleepover is on the calendar, you can bet the Secret Service is going along too.

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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
  • Now if a sleepover is on the calendar, you can bet the Secret Service is going along too. —  CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2008
  • HARRIS: You know, you pick up the kids from school for a sleepover or a play date or something like that. —  CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2007
  • We'd gather around 2 or 3 in the afternoon, everyone bringing with them stuff for a sleepover - yes, even the boys. —  jaxraven Diary Entry
  • 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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/ (slēpˈōˌvər)/
ahd pronounces "sleepover"
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