catnapnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkæt.næp/us/ˈkæt.næp/a short sleep
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Animal physiology: sleep & sleeping
- beauty
- bed
- bunk
- bye-byes
- conk
- delayed sleep phase pattern
- disco nap
- hit
- kip
- nod
- sleep over
- sleepwalker
- sleepyhead
- slept
- sound
- soundly
- tuck
- tuck sb in
- turn
- turn in
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catnap
verb [ I ] ukusplural -pp-
Examples from literature
- Throwing himself into a chair the surgeon, used to getting a catnap whenever and wherever possible, was soon sleeping as soundly as was his young patient.
- What sleep there was came only in catnaps, for there was the constant noise of the pumps, and the running about of the sailors on the decks.