snoozer

snoozer

English

Etymology

    From snooze + -er.

    Noun

    snoozer (plural snoozers)

    1. One who snoozes; a sleeper.
    2. (colloquial) Something that is boring, uninteresting or unremarkable; something that would tend to induce sleep.
      The program is usually pretty good, but last Wednesday's episode was a real snoozer.
    3. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A thief who steals from hotel rooms while staying as a hotel guest.
      • 1862, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, page 242:
        [] a "snoozer," or one of those thieves who take up their quarters at hotels []
      • 2023, Adrian and Dawn L. Bridge, Manchester Murders and Misdemeanours
        A snoozer, though, was a criminal who focussed exclusively upon stealing from hotels. Snoozers were looked upon as being the aristocrats of the criminal world during much of the nineteenth century.

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