Meaning

1 senses

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic)Death.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. We zipped our two sleeping bags together to make one big sleeping bag.

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  2. Sami found a cave big enough to sleep in.

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Origin

Apparently coined by novelist Raymond Chandler, author of The Big Sleep (1939).

Apparently coined by novelist Raymond Chandler, author of The Big Sleep (1939).

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Forms

plural: big sleeps
Singularbig sleep
Pluralbig sleeps

regular

Synonyms

27 synonyms
deathA2endA1tombB2decompositionB2demiseC1doomB2exitB1fatalityC1reposeC2sunsetB1crashB1downfallB2fallB1dirt nap

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bigA1bigamybigfootbigger

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