sleep on

transitive phrasal verb

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

to ignore or fail to notice

Antonyms feel

Collocates game², I'mma², cat², son, and shit, ayo, baby mama, back in the day, bitch, buck, creep, crew, DJ, dog, feel, flow, for sure, G, game, god, hoe, holmes, hot, props, rapper, rap, rap, rhyme, shit, snatch, soft, step to, sucker, thug, triple beam, yo, muh'fucker, peeps, dope, game

Related concepts hate, player-hate

Related words front on, hate on, ride on, roll on, run game on, sleep, stunt on, wild on

Timeline

1987 Spoonie Gee "Mighty Mike Tyson" [The Godfather of Rap]
Don't sleep on him, and don't drop your guard
1988-06-07 EPMD "Strictly Business" [Strictly Business]
Yo, don't sleep on the E
1988-06-21 Big Daddy Kane "Ain't No Half-Steppin'" [Long Live The Kane]
Be sleeping on your rhymes till I start to snore

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