Usually means: Short nap, usually during daytime.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. forty winks: Merriam-Webster
  2. forty winks: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forty winks: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forty winks: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forty winks: Vocabulary.com
  6. forty winks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. forty winks: Wiktionary
  8. forty winks: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. forty winks: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. forty winks: Dictionary.com
  11. Forty Winks (disambiguation), Forty Winks, Forty winks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. forty winks: Rhymezone
  13. Forty Winks: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. forty winks: FreeDictionary.org
  15. forty winks: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. forty winks: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. forty winks: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. forty winks: Encyclopedia

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  1. forty winks: Idioms
  2. forty winks: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. forty winks: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. forty winks: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (forty winks)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A short sleep, an extra sleep, a nap.

Similar:
nap, snooze, catnap, cat sleep, short sleep, twenty winks, wink, eyeful, sleep, snooz, more...

Opposite:
insomnia, sleeplessness, wakefulness

Phrases:
got forty winks, more...

Adjectives:
eyeful, askance, staring, blear, blind, blindfold, glazed, agaze, glancing, gleg, gleyed

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Similar:
nap, snooze, catnap, cat sleep, short sleep, twenty winks, wink, eyeful, sleep, snooz, more...

Opposite:
insomnia, sleeplessness, wakefulness

Phrases:
got forty winks, more...

Adjectives:
eyeful, askance, staring, blear, blind, blindfold, glazed, agaze, glancing, gleg, gleyed



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