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Entertainment

• Sleeper hit
  Sleeper hit
  
  A sleeper hit refers to a film, book, Single , album, TV show, or video game that gains unexpected success or recognition.Sleeper films...
  , a work, such as a movie ("sleeper film"), book, or product, that obtains unexpected recognition or success

Music

• Sleeper (band)
  Sleeper (band)
  
  Sleeper were a United Kingdom Britpop band in the 1990s fronted by Louise Wener. The band had eight UK Top 40 hit singles and three UK Top 10 hit albums....
  , a Britpop band in the 1990s
• The Sleepers (band), an American post-punk group from San Francisco
• The Sleepers (band)
  The Sleepers (Band)
  
  The Sleepers are an United States rock 'n' roll band from Chicago, Illinois....
  , an American Rock and roll
  Rock and roll
  
  Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
   band from Chicago
  Chicago
  
  Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
  , Illinois
  Illinois
  
  The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
  .
• Sleepers (album)
  Sleepers (album)
  
  Sleepers is the solo album from Rapper Big Pooh, of North Carolina's Little Brother. It followed on the heels of bandmate Phonte's album with The Foreign Exchange, Connected ....
  , a solo album from rapper Big Pooh
• Daysleeper
  Daysleeper
  
  "Daysleeper" is a song by R.E.M., released as their first single from their eleventh studio album Up , and the first single to be released by the band since the departure of drummer Bill Berry....
  , a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M.
• Daysleeper (band)
  Daysleeper (band)
  
  Not to be confused with United States indie rock band Day Sleeper.'Daysleeper' is an Iceland pop music band started in October 2001 in music by Sverrir Bergmann, along with J?n Svanur Sveinsson, V??ir "V" Vernhar?sson, Brynjar Elefsen, Stef?n P?tur Vi?arsson and Ing?lfur ?rnason....
  , an Icelandic pop band

Film & television

• Sleeper (Buffy episode)
  Sleeper (Buffy episode)
  
  "Sleeper" is the eighth episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ....
  , an episode in the seventh and final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Sleeper (film)
  Sleeper (film)
  
  Sleeper is a futuristic science fiction comedy film, written by, directed by, and starring Woody Allen. It is loosely based on the H. G. Wells novel The Sleeper Awakes....
  , a 1973 Woody Allen movie humorously based on The Sleeper Awakes by H. G. Wells
• Sleeper (Torchwood)
  Sleeper (Torchwood)
  
  "Sleeper" is the second List of Torchwood episodes of the second series of British science fiction on television series Torchwood, which was first broadcast by BBC Two on 23 January 2008....
   - an episode from Series 2 of the series Torchwood
• Sleepers (film)
  Sleepers (film)
  
  Sleepers is a 1996 legal drama film by Barry Levinson based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel of the same name....
  , a 1996 film based on the novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra
• Sleepers (TV series)
  Sleepers (TV series)
  
  Sleepers is a 1991 in television comedy-drama produced by Cinema Verity for the BBC, set around the period of Glasnost in the Soviet Union....
  , a British comedy-drama
• Sleeper (2009 film)
  Sleeper (2009 film)
  
  Sleeper is an action horror film shot in Australia 2008 by writer/director Dru Brown and producer Judd Tilyard. It features Lord of the Rings actor Bruce Hopkins and professional wrestler Scott Levy, best known for his stunts in World Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Entertainment, Total Nonstop Acti...
  , a 2009 action/thriller film starring Scott Levy and Bruce Hopkins
• Sleeper: How to Kill a Vampire
  Sleeper: How to Kill a Vampire
  
  Sleeper: How to Kill a Vampire is a 2009 horror/comedy directed by Sean Simmons and written by Tom Corbett....
   is a 2009 UK Horror/Comedy

Literature

• Sleeper (comic book)
  Sleeper (comic book)
  
  Sleeper was a comic book series written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, published by DC Comics under their Wildstorm imprint. The series consisted of two twelve-issue limited series and the events of the first "season" served as a catalyst for the Coup d'Etat line-wide crossover....
  , a comic book published by DC Comics
• Sleeper was a giant robot in the Captain America
  Captain America
  
  Captain America is a Character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character First appearance in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby....
   comics that was installed by the Red Skull in Germany to sleep for twenty years and then destroy the world
• The Sleeper Awakes
  The Sleeper Awakes
  
  The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his deposit account, he has become the richest man in the world....
  , a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells
• Sleepers, a 1995 novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra
  Lorenzo Carcaterra
  
  Lorenzo Carcaterra is an United States writer. Hell's Kitchen is the setting for his most famous book, Sleepers, which was adapted into a film of the same name ....
  , allegedly based on a true story
• The Sleeper (Wild Cards)
  The Sleeper (Wild Cards)
  
  The Sleeper is a fictional character from the Wild Cards series of books.In September 1946, ninth-grader Croyd Crenson, native of an unspecified burough of the New York City metropolitan area, was one of the first victims of the alien virus dubbed "the Wild Card", which generates random mutations in humans, many times leading to an altered...
  , Croyd Crenson, a character in the Wild Cards literary series who periodically hibernates for a period of time, awakening each time in a new body.

Sports

• In fantasy sports a player who is drafted late in a draft, but exceeds production from what would be expected from one drafted there.
• A sleeper hold
  Rear naked choke
  
  The rear naked choke is a chokehold in martial arts applied from an opponent's back. Depending on the context, the term may refer to one of two variations of the technique, either arm can be used to apply the choke in both cases....
   is a type of chokehold used in professional wrestling

Transportation and construction

• In rail transport, a name for the sleeping car
  Sleeping car
  
  The sleeping car or sleeper is a railroad passenger car that can accommodate all its passengers in beds of one kind or another, primarily for the purpose of making nighttime travel more restful....
   with beds
• In bus transport, sleeper bus
  Sleeper bus
  
  A sleeper bus is a type of Coach , often used to transport bands and their technicians and road crew between cities and shows. In Europe, these vehicles are full sized coaches but are only designed internally to carry between 8 and 18 passengers....
  
• A railroad tie
  Railroad tie
  
  A railroad tie, cross tie, or railway sleeper is a rectangular object used as a base for railroad tracks. Sleepers are members generally laid transverse to the rails, on which the rails are supported and fixed, to transfer the loads from rails to the ballast and subgrade, and to hold the rails to the correct rail gauge....
   is also referred to as a "railway sleeper"
• In road transport, a truck
  Truck
  
  File:Red truck USA.JPGA truck is a type of motor vehicle commonly used for carrying goods and materials. Some light trucks are relatively small, similar in size to a passenger automobile....
   with a sleeping compartment
• In construction and shipbuilding, a strong internal beam, especially railroad tie
  Railroad tie
  
  A railroad tie, cross tie, or railway sleeper is a rectangular object used as a base for railroad tracks. Sleepers are members generally laid transverse to the rails, on which the rails are supported and fixed, to transfer the loads from rails to the ballast and subgrade, and to hold the rails to the correct rail gauge....
  s supporting rail tracks
• Sleeper (car)
  Sleeper (car)
  
  File:Mercury Marauder.jpgA sleeper or Q-car is a automobile that has high performance and an unassuming exterior. Sleeper cars are termed such because their exterior looks little or no different from a standard or economy-class car , but internally they are modified to perform at higher performance levels....
  , an automobile that has any manner of modified engine, drivetrain, suspension, brakes or other parts, with the goal of improving its original performance, while still maintaining the outward appearance of a stock, factory equipped vehicle; the British term for this is Q-car

Other uses

• Sleeper is slang for a criminal hired to kill people (put them to sleep) or who has spent time in a correctional facility
• Sleeper agent
  Sleeper agent
  
  Sleeper agents are spy who are placed in a target country or organization, not to undertake an immediate mission, but rather to act as potential assets if activated at a later point in time....
  , a secret agent left long inactive
• Sleeper cell, a similar group of agents
• Sleeper (fish), a perciform fish of the family Eleotridae
• In business, synonym for sleeping partner
• Blanket sleeper
  Blanket sleeper
  
  The blanket sleeper is a type of especially warm nightwear worn primarily during the winter in the United States and Canada. The garment is worn especially by infants and young children....
  , a one-piece, footed sleeping garment
• A type of couch
  Couch
  
  A couch is an upholstery item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person and typically has an armrest on either side. Couches are usually to be found in the family room, living room, den or the lounge room....
  , also known as a fold-out couch or hide-a-bed
• An earring
  Earring
  
  Earrings are jewellery attached to the ear through a body piercing in the earlobe or some other external part of the ear . Earrings are worn by both sexes....
  , originally one designed to be worn at night (i.e. while sleeping) to keep the hole in a pierced ear open. In the 1960s, small hoops were often used for this purpose, so this term is sometimes used to describe a small hoop earring. Other people use it to refer to the studs commonly used to pierce ears.
• A yo-yo
  Yo-yo
  
  The yo-yo is a toy consisting of two equally sized and weighted disks of plastic, wood, or metal, connected with an axle, with a string tied around it....
   trick, "the sleeper"
• A sleeper is a low inland dike, obsoleted by a new dike closer to the shore