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Rough sleeper
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dosser
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who sleeps in any convenient place [syn: street person ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers. ▪ Male speaker we're not dossers on the street, we're ordinary people. ▪ What I did with the dossers is put them in very strange settings. ▪ ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context British Ireland English) Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work. 2 A homeless and jobless person. Etymology 2 alt. 1 A pannier or basket. 2 A hanging tapestry; a dorsal. n. 1 A pannier or basket. 2 A hanging tapestry; ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dosser \Dos"ser\, n. [LL. dosserum, or F.dossier bundle of papers, part of a basket resting on the back, fr. L. dorsum back. See Dorsal , and cf. Dosel .] [Written also dorser and dorsel .] A pannier, or basket. To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new ...
Usage examples of dosser.
Superintendent halted beside the dosser, who was eating a chunk of bread and drinking some red wine.
As our rather grand procession swept by, a voice called my name from a doorway and I turned to see a small dosser, with a bobble hat pulled down over his eyes, holding out a tattered copy of the Evening Standard which had formed part of his bedding.
The dosser who had died had already given up on that struggle long before Brinkley had come on the scene.
He was as dishevelled and inarticulate as any street dosser who was down on his luck.
And, since she rarely doubted her abilities or her instincts, she knew that no mere drunk had crashed a black Zil saloon into the Moskva, despite the impressions of the only witness, a policeman on foot patrol along the quays, looking for dossers or black marketeers and the like.
And, since she rarely doubted her abilities or her instincts, she knew that no mere drunk had crashed a black Zil saloon into the Moskva, despite the impressions of the only witness, a policeman on foot patrol along the quays, looking for dossers or black marketeers and the like.