snoozer
nounEtymology From snooze + -er.
1
One who snoozes; a sleeper.
2
Colloquial Something that is boring, uninteresting or unremarkable; something that would tend to induce sleep.
- The program is usually pretty good, but last Wednesday's episode was a real snoozer.
- […] a "snoozer," or one of those thieves who take up their quarters at hotels […]1862, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, page 242:
- 2023, Adrian and Dawn L. Bridge, Manchester Murders and Misdemeanours A snoozer, though, was a criminal who focussed exclusively upon stealing from hotels. Snoozers were looked upon as being the aristocrats of the criminal world during much of the nineteenth century.