Definition of sleepover
1 : an overnight stay (as at another's home)
2 : an instance of hosting a sleepover in one's home
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Examples of sleepover in a Sentence
Our daughter is having a sleepover for her friends tomorrow.
Recent Examples of sleepover from the Web
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Kids who may not have interacted before have playmates and sleepovers together.
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The accuser's mother and police were notified later that afternoon, after the girl disclosed vaginal pain and bleeding to a friend's mother who had rented the hotel rooms and chaperoned the sleepover party for her two daughters and their friends.
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The final scene saw Rosewood High's new batch of popular girls waking up in the middle of the night at a sleepover to find that two of their friends, Adison and Willa, had disappeared.
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Addison, that terrible child who was trying to blackmail Emily a few episodes ago, had a sleepover with her friends (one of whom is Maya’s niece) right at the end of the finale.
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Ramiz looks back fondly on bowling trips, group sleepovers, concerts and other activities.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Andrew Passwaiter, 18, was accused of groping a 15-year-old girl at a spring break sleepover, WTHR reported.
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It functions today as a floating museum, a hands-on classroom for apprentice shipwrights and even a spot for sleepovers.
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The teenager had been participating in a sleepover at a religious institution that authorities did not identify.
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First Known Use of sleepover
1965
SLEEPOVER Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of sleepover for English Language Learners
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: a party where one or more people (especially children) stay overnight at one person's house
SLEEPOVER Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of sleepover for Students
: an overnight stay at another's home
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Britannica English: Translation of sleepover for Arabic speakers
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