slept-in

adjective

Of bedding or clothing, looking untidy and wrinkled from having been slept in recently.

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Meanings

adjectiveslept-in (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf bedding or clothing, looking untidy and wrinkled from having been slept in recently.

    He was wearing a stained white singlet that revealed tufts of black hair under his arms, and slept-in white canvas trousers and rubber-soled sneakers.

    1954, Ian Fleming, “Death of a Pelican”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 138
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