snooze off

verb

To drift off; to fall asleep

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Meanings

verbsnooze off (third-person singular simple present snoozes off, present participle snoozing off, simple past and past participle snoozed off)

present singular third person snoozes off · participle present snoozing off · participle past snoozed off · past snoozed off

  1. intransitiveTo drift off; to fall asleep

    But lately, he'd been tossing about all day, too exhausted to get proper sleep, and only snoozed off toward the last hour.

    1977, Herman Spector, Bastard in the Ragged Suit
  2. transitiveTo sleep off

    Let us imagine that the stomach in question belongs to your uncle Embry, snoozing off his Christmas banquet on his bed

    1985, Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes
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Chicago

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