snooze off

English

Verb

snooze off (third-person singular simple present snoozes off, present participle snoozing off, simple past and past participle snoozed off)

1. (intransitive) To drift off; to fall asleep
   • 1977, Herman Spector, Bastard in the Ragged Suit:

     But lately, he'd been tossing about all day, too exhausted to get proper sleep, and only snoozed off toward the last hour.

2. (transitive) To sleep off
   • 1985, Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes:

     Let us imagine that the stomach in question belongs to your uncle Embry, snoozing off his Christmas banquet on his bed