NOUN
- a person who sleeps a lot
- 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
- a person oblivious to social changes
How To Use Rip van Winkle In A Sentence
- Said Felix Adler to his hemlock-spruce, "Vivat, crescat, floreat"; and a sentiment much like it was implied in Sol Smith Russell's words to the grove's master as they finished putting in his linden together -- for he was just then proposing to play Rip Van Winkle, which Joseph Jefferson had finally decided to produce no more: "Here's to your healt ', undt der healt' of all your family; may you lif long undt brosper. The Amateur Garden
- This is the opinion of some Rip van Winkle.
- Come on, Rip Van Winkle , wake up! It's nearly lunchtime.
- But Rip Van Winkle never worried about that.
- He is changing to Rip Van Winkle.
- Rip Van Winkle, for example, is oft referred to as a Knickerbocker tale. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ethics of Naming Sports Teams After Ethnic Groups:
- Rip Van Winkle by the famous American short story writer, Washington Irving, tells how a man called Rip Van Winkle was bullied by his wife, Dame Van Winkle.
- But Rip Van Winkle never worried about that.
- Washington Irving " Rip Van Winkle " , " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Rip Van Winkle, a kindly, lazy, henpecked man, set out for a remote part of the Catskill Mountains.
