Zzz Definition

z: a prolonged sound
interjection
Used to suggest the sound of snoring: used mainly in print, as in comic strips, and spelled with a varying number of z's.
Webster's New World

Implies that a particular character is asleep.

Wiktionary
verb

To sleep.

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Origin of Zzz

  • Supposed to represent the sound of snoring.

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Zzz Sentence Examples

  • She was prattling on about the planet Zzz where some arch villain who closely resembled Jerome Shipton, was to meet his due while climbing an icy cliff, in hot pursuit of a fair maiden whom Dean took to be a greatly slimmed down version of the author.

  • Late-sleeping Gladys Turnbull was still dreaming of the vengeance of the inhabitants of Zzz.

  • Her laugh echoed down the rocky canyons of Zzz as the essence of abomination breathed his bloody last below her.

  • The look on Edith's face said she was off visiting the planet Zzz.

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