ˈsleep-in, n. and a.
A. n.
1. [-in3.] A form of protest in which the participants sleep overnight in premises which they have occupied.
| 1965, 1971 [see -in3]. |
2. [f. vbl. phr. to sleep in: see sense 1 g of the vb.] An act of sleeping later than usual, a lie-in.
| 1977 P. G. Winslow Witch Hill Murder ii. 67 Those bells do make the damnedest racket. Nobody..can have a sleep-in on Sunday. |
B. attrib. or as adj. [sleep v. 1 g.] Of a person: that sleeps on the premises, resident. Of a place: at which one stays overnight, residential.
| 1961 in Webster s.v., Five sleep-in servants. 1970 L. Sanders Anderson Tapes xxi. 56 Apartment Four A... A sleep-in maid. 1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens vii. 329 The first was a three-week sleep-in camp experience for 62 children and their teachers in June, 1947, at Life Camps. The second was a three-day sleep-over school camping experience..at Hudson Guild Farm, Nokong, New Jersey. 1981 J. D. MacDonald Free Fall in Crimson x. 106 He managed to hustle me into bed... I told him I had to quit. I wasn't going to be a sleep-in secretary. |