sleep camel
English
Etymology
Perhaps an analogy of a sleep camel's storing sleep to a camel's storing water.
Noun
sleep camel (plural sleep camels)
- (slang, idiomatic) A person who habitually does with little to no sleep during the week and then makes up by sleeping a lot during the weekend.
- 2001, Charles B. Handy, The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist, Harvard Business School Press (2002), →ISBN, page 100:
- No wonder, then, that so many take their laptops to the beach or that 'sleep camels', as they call them in Silicon Valley, those who sleep only at weekends, are becoming more common.
- 2001, Richard Reeves, Happy Mondays: Putting the Pleasure Back Into Work, Pearson Education Limited (2001), →ISBN, unnumbered pages:
- Silicon Valley has bred 'sleep camels', who store up sleep at the weekends then work long hours all week.
- 2014, Rocky F. Catman, Meet Me at the Riverside, Lulu (2014), →ISBN, page 198:
- Sheila told her that John said musicians were like sleep camels when it came to that. They could stay awake for days when they had to.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:sleep camel.
- 2001, Charles B. Handy, The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist, Harvard Business School Press (2002), →ISBN, page 100:
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