Sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
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It ill becomes you to catch a wink on a dying man's last words.
2
His babysitters took a deep breath when the chimp went to sleep-andtried to catch a wink themselves.
3
Catch a wink; the time'll go faster.
4
Without deigning to notice it, she caught a wink and a nod from one vaquero to another.
5
The most common explanation was that they had worked the whole night through and hadn't caught a wink of sleep.
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As he recalled, Molly could revive pretty quickly after even a brief catnap.
2
He wondered, as he had before, whether the old man was taking a catnap.
3
Around 6 PM, I decided to take a catnap and fell asleep across the bed.
4
I won't mind if you catnap for a while.
5
While Walter took a catnap, I went downstairs.
6
After a cup of coffee and Danish, I was ready for a shower and a catnap.
7
Seems like he took a catnap every night.
8
He surely couldn't catnap under his seat.
9
I was debating a catnap on the couch when a folder on Chance's desk caught my eye.
10
Two minutes before the global apocalypse started, Stone woke from a catnap and refocused on the TV screen.
11
Better take a catnap, he said.
12
Erica had slept a deep and dreamless sleep, but still felt as though she'd barely had a catnap.
13
I was only taking a catnap.
14
I could catnap every 10 minutes for about 8 minutes while waiting for Wayne.
15
He had trained himself to catnap in his office for tenor twenty-minute periods, after which he felt remarkably refreshed.
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That was the time I was taking to study some diagrams I'd made, but instead took an involuntary catnap.