A person who habitually does with little to no sleep during the week and then makes up by sleeping a lot during the weekend.
Etymology:
- Perhaps an analogy of a sleep camel's storing sleep to a camel's storing water.
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No wonder, then, that so many take their laptops to the beach or that 'sleep camels', as they call them in Silicon Valley, those who sleep only at weekends, are becoming more common.
Submitted on July 10, 2018
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cammello di sonno
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