shut-eye

alternative shuteye

1. informaluncountableSleep.

   With the night so quiet and peaceful, though, there was nothing he could do except return to camp and try to get a little shut-eye himself.

   2008, William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone, Preachers Showdown, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 172

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   To make matters worse, he sorely needs some shut-eye. “Not to get into it, but I’m not a great sleeper,” he says, reaching out of frame for his coffee.

   2025 September 12, Ryan Gilbey, “‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine – and toothache”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: forty winks, nap, snooze, cark, doss, rest, sleep