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sleep-out noun- an enclosed verandah, or part thereof, fitted with a bed for sleeping AUSTRALIA, 1927
- In that case I’ll put you in the sleep-out. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 25, 1954
- It was one of those houses where the front door had been boarded up and the verandah converted into a long skinny sleepout. — John Birmingham, He Died With a Felafel in his Hand, p. 128, 1994
- chiefly in Victoria, a separate outbuilding used as sleeping quarters AUSTRALIA
- The boys can use the sleep-out if the other rooms are occupied. — www.abc.net.au/wordmap, 2003
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