Citations:sleep camel

English citations of sleep camel

Noun: "(slang, idiomatic) a person who habitually goes with little to no sleep during the week and then makes up by sleeping a lot during the weekend"

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• 1999, "Got the time?", The Economist, 24 June 1999:

  (Silicon Valley has produced a new species of human beings known as “sleep camels”: people who can store up enough sleep at weekends to be able to work flat-out through the week.)

• 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.

• 2003, John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge, A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Promise of Globalization, Random House (2003), →ISBN, page 235:

  In Silicon Valley, people talk about "sleep camels"—people who can work throughout the week and then get their rest on weekends.

• 2004, Russel G. Foster & Leon Kreitzman, Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing, Yale University Press (2005), →ISBN, page 184:

  A sleep camel is a person who makes a habit of getting little sleep during the week and tries to make up for it by napping and sleeping in over the weekend.

• 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.