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n. - A person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour.

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  • "Past nine o'clock, slugabed," her cousin replied.
  • This one jumped in fully formed as I was lying slugabed and wishing for a real spring.
  • Harriet has been kicked out of her French lover's Greenwich Village apartment on the fairly reasonable basis that she is an acid-tongued slugabed who does nothing but...
  • The other books in the first contract did much better not fast enough not to cost me that 30% and the books on the next contract did even better than that, so at this point the...
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