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sleep camel

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.

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

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cammello di sonno

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