snoozer

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noun

One who snoozes; a sleeper.

“The program is usually pretty good, but last Wednesday's episode was a real snoozer.”

UncommonScrabble 16

Meanings

nounsnoozer (plural snoozers)

plural snoozers

  1. One who snoozes; a sleeper.
  2. colloquialSomething that is boring, uninteresting or unremarkable; something that would tend to induce sleep.

    The program is usually pretty good, but last Wednesday's episode was a real snoozer.

  3. UKobsoletethieves' cantA thief who steals from hotel rooms while staying as a hotel guest.

    2023, Adrian and Dawn L. Bridge, Manchester Murders and Misdemeanours A snoozer, though, was a criminal who focussed exclusively upon stealing from hotels. Snoozers were looked upon as being the aristocrats of the criminal world during much of the nineteenth century.

    1 more example

    […] a "snoozer," or one of those thieves who take up their quarters at hotels […]

    1862, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, page 242

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “snoozer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snoozer.

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