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rip van winkle   (TTS Sound)

The noun rip van winkle has 3 senses

• Rip van Winkle -- (a person oblivious to social changes)


• Rip van Winkle -- (a person who sleeps a lot)


• Rip van Winkle -- (the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens)