"cosleep" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: cosleeps [present, singular, third-person], cosleeping [participle, present], coslept [participle, past], coslept [past]
Etymology: From co- + sleep. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|co|sleep}} co- + sleep Head templates: {{en-verb|cosleeps|cosleeping|coslept}} cosleep (third-person singular simple present cosleeps, present participle cosleeping, simple past and past participle coslept)
  1. (intransitive, chiefly sociology) To sleep in the same bed (with someone), especially of a family member, parent, child etc. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Sleep, Sociology

Inflected forms

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