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Rip Van Winkle
[ rip van wing-kuhl ]
noun
- (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
- (italics) the story itself, published in The Sketch Book (1819).
Rip Van Winkle
/ 藞r瑟p v忙n 藞w瑟艐k蓹l /
noun
- a person who is oblivious to changes, esp in social attitudes or thought
- a person who sleeps a lot
鈥淩ip Van Winkle鈥
- (1819) A story by Washington Irving . The title character goes to sleep after a game of bowling and much drinking in the mountains with a band of dwarves. He awakens twenty years later, an old man. Back home, Rip finds that all has changed: his wife is dead, his daughter is married, and the American Revolutionary War has taken place.
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An article in the Tennessean drew on the works of American literary forefather Washington Irving, describing the lack of scoring in the second and fourth quarters of a football game as a 鈥淩ip Van Winkle imitation鈥 by the offenses.
It鈥檚 as if Rip Van Winkle fell asleep in his early 20s in a start-up and woke up a 32-year-old at Burning Man.
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