Sleepy means feeling a need for
sleep
Sleep is a sedentary state of mind and body. It is characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, reduced muscle activity and reduced interactions with surroundings. It is distinguished from wakefulness by a de ...
, also known as
somnolence
Somnolence (alternatively sleepiness or drowsiness) is a state of strong desire for sleep, or sleeping for unusually long periods (compare hypersomnia). It has distinct meanings and causes. It can refer to the usual state preceding falling asleep ...
. It may also refer to:
People
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Sleepy (rapper) (born 1984), a South Korean rapper part of the hip hop duo Untouchable
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Sleepy Bill Burns
William Thomas Burns (January 27, 1880 – June 6, 1953), nicknamed "Sleepy Bill", was an American baseball player who played as a pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) for five different teams from 1908 to 1912. He earned his nickname for his ...
(1880–1953), American baseball player
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Sleepy Brown
Patrick Leroy "Sleepy" Brown (born January 24, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer from Savannah, Georgia. He is one-third of the successful Atlanta-based production team of Organized Noize, which has created hits for act ...
(born 1970), African American musician
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Sleepy John Estes
John Adam Estes (January 25, 1899 or 1900June 5, 1977),
(1899–1977), African American musician
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Sleepy Floyd
Eric Augustus "Sleepy" Floyd (born March 6, 1960) is an American former professional basketball player. An NBA All-Star in 1987 as a Warrior, he is perhaps best known for his tenures for Golden State and Houston.
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(born 1960), retired American professional basketball player
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Sleepy LaBeef
Thomas Paulsley LaBeff (July 20, 1935 – December 26, 2019), known professionally as Sleepy LaBeef, was an American singer and musician.
Early life
LaBeef was born in Smackover, Arkansas, the youngest of 10 children. The family name was origin ...
(1935–2019), American rockabilly musician
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Sleepy Tripp
Ron "Sleepy" Tripp is an American Hall of Fame midget car driver. Tripp got his nickname as a youth when he would fall asleep in his quarter midget car while waiting for his next race to start.[Sleepy (character)
''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full- ...]
, one of the dwarfs in the film ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''
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''Sleepy'' (novel), by Kate Orman based on the TV series ''Doctor Who''
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"Sleepy" (short story), an 1888 story by Anton Chekhov
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Sleep disorder
A sleep disorder, or somnipathy, is a medical disorder of an individual's sleep patterns. Some sleep disorders are severe enough to interfere with normal physical, mental, social and emotional functioning. Polysomnography and actigraphy are test ...
, a medical disorder of the sleep patterns
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Rheum
Rheum (; from Greek: ῥεῦμα ''rheuma'' 'a flowing, rheum') is a thin mucus naturally discharged from the eyes, nose, or mouth, often during sleep (cf. mucopurulent discharge).Amodio, Aime"Where Do Eye Boogers Come From?" Families.com bl ...
, the thin mucus discharged from the eyes, nose, or mouth during sleep
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Sleepy Creek
Sleepy Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 tributary of the Potomac River in the United States, belonging to the Chesapeake Bay's watershed. The s ...
, a tributary of the Potomac River, U.S.
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Sleepy Hollow (disambiguation) Sleepy Hollow may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' (film), a 1980 film directed by Henning Schellerup, based on Washington Irving's story
* ''Sleepy Hollow'' (film), a 1999 film directed by Tim Burt ...
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Sleepy time (disambiguation) or Sleepytime
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