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sleeping off
vb. (present participle of sleep off English)
Usage examples of "sleeping off".
He found guests, dancing girls, parasites, poets, painters--a motley crew- occupying every kind of dormitory, and all peacefully engaged in sleeping off the effects of the wine they had drunk at the banquet.
The sight of the weak-minded old woman, of the cowed children, and the ragged man sleeping off his liquor, made the setting of her own life seem a vision of peace and plenty.
As her need grew, she found the courage, coming across a drunk sleeping off the gin behind a broken wooden gate leading into an empty courtyard.
The few surviving marines were sleeping off sedation down in the med bay, recovering from shock and battle fatigue and exposure to the alien city.