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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