0 to sleep lightly for a short time, especially somewhere other than in your bed: --
1 a short, light sleep, especially when you are not in your bed: --
2 a button on an alarm clock (= a clock for waking you up) that makes the sound stop so that you can sleep for a few minutes more, before waking you up again: --
3 something that is very boring: --
Weary for working several hours continuously, the animator decides to take a little snooze.
She also loves to sleep, hates to be waken up, and considers mankind's greatest invention to be the snooze button on her alarm clock.
I liken our recent experience of public participation to that of an alarm clock; people tend to keep pressing the snooze button until they finally get the wake-up call.
Usually after such a luncheon both parties are more fitted for an afternoon snooze than to cope with business.
We can either be alive to that call or hit the snooze button and slumber on.
Sheriffs can be wheeled into court, or cannot hear half the time, or may snooze.
However, they are often lazy, and can be found snoozing in a patch of sunlight.
Around the plinth are statues of four crouching lions, which are described as mourning, or snoozing.
