Definition of "forty winks" []

• Informal A short nap. (noun-plural)

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• ""And after lunch at Elviry's I went into my room to lie down and get forty winks against another all-night frolic, for it does seem to me that city people get less real sleep than is scarcely believable, with their junketings and doings which Tom is always just thick into."