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a peace summit where the treaty is whispered at 2 a.m. and broken by dawn

means a social arrangement, usually for children or friends, in which guests stay overnight at someone's home, typically involving little actual sleep.

from A plain English compound of "sleep" and "over," in the sense of staying over at someone's place — the same "over" you hear in "stay over" or "come over." Both halves are old, homely Germanic words: "sleep" traces to Old English slǣpan, and "over" to ofer. The fused noun "sleepover" itself is comparatively recent, a 20th-century coinage that rose with the suburban childhood ritual it names.

sleep deficit
Named for the one thing nobody actually does
snack economy
Pillow forts run on smuggled candy and contraband chips
first asleep
Risks decoration in toothpaste or shaving cream
ancient roots
Communal sleeping predates private bedrooms by millennia
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