Definition
A person who habitually does with little to no sleep during the week and then makes up by sleeping a lot during the weekend.
Origins
Perhaps an analogy of a person's storing sleep to a camel's storing water.
In Context
- "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."
- "Silicon Valley has bred 'sleep camels', who store up sleep at the weekends then work long hours all week."
- "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."