verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To eat in one's sleep; to eat while asleep. intransitive

   "Females are more than twice as likely as males to sleep-eat."

Example

More examples

"Females are more than twice as likely as males to sleep-eat."

Etymology

From sleep + eat; by analogy of sleepwalk.

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