sleep vi.
1. [techspeak] To relinquish a claim (of a process on a
multitasking system) for service; to indicate to the scheduler
that a process may be deactivated until some given event occurs
or a specified time delay elapses. 2. In jargon, used very
similarly to v. block; also in `sleep
on', syn. with `block on'. Often used to indicate that the
speaker has relinquished a demand for resources until some
(possibly unspecified) external event: "They can't get the fix
I've been asking for into the next release, so I'm going to sleep
on it until the release, then start hassling them again."
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slim n.
A small, derivative change (e.g., to code).