sleepover

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sleep +‎ over

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sleepover (plural sleepovers)

  1. The act of spending the night as a guest in another's house, especially when the participants are children.
    Hyponyms: pyjama party, slumber party
    • 1979 August 18, Ilana Weinstock, “Holy Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 10:
      Since it would be too late to notify the many people whom we hope are coming, we are really working hard to find other facilities — probably to rent a hall for the meetings; perhaps arrange sleep-overs at Israeli members' homes.
  2. An overnight guest.

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