Sleep Camel Meaning

(slang, idiomatic) A person who habitually does with little to no sleep during the week and then makes up by sleeping a lot during the weekend.

Example: 2001, Charles B. Handy, The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist, Harvard Business School Press (2002), ISBN 9781578518227, page 100:
  No wonder, then, that so many take their laptops to the beach or that 'sleep camels', as they call them in Silicon Valley, those who sleep only at weekends, are becoming more common.
2001, Richard Reeves, Happy Mondays: Putting the Pleasure Back Into Work, Pearson Education Limited (2001), ISBN 9780738206592, unnumbered pages:
  Silicon Valley has bred 'sleep camels', who store up sleep at the weekends then work long hours all week.
2014, Rocky F. Catman, Meet Me at the Riverside, Lulu (2014), ISBN 9781483412238, page 198:
  Sheila told her that John said musicians were like sleep camels when it came to that. They could stay awake for days when they had to.
For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:sleep camel.