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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
doss
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
doss house
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
▪ She knew that Harry liked to doss down in the porch.
▪ I suppose that'd be to stop folks like Vern - like me and Vern - using them to doss down in.
▪ He meant he'd find somewhere to doss down, and that included me.
▪ Nor are folk expected to doss down on a pair of planks across the bath.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The party finished late, so I just dossed on the floor at Adele's.
▪ You can stay here, if you don't mind dossing down on the floor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He lets you doss on the floor of his bedroom.
▪ He meant he'd find somewhere to doss down, and that included me.
▪ Here he was a punter, a champagne Charlie, dossing with the underclass.
▪ I suppose that'd be to stop folks like Vern - like me and Vern - using them to doss down in.
▪ Nor are folk expected to doss down on a pair of planks across the bath.
▪ She knew that Harry liked to doss down in the porch.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
doss

doss \doss\ v. i. to sleep in a convenient place.

Wiktionary
doss
  1. (context Scotland English) Useless or lazy. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially ''cunt''. n. 1 (cx slang English) The avoidance of work. 2 (cx slang English) An easy piece of work. 3 (cx slang dated English) A place to sleep in; a bed. 4 (cx slang dated by extension English) Sleep. v

  2. 1 (context intransitive British and Ireland English) To avoid work, shirk, et

  3. 2 (context intransitive British slang English) To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless

WordNet
doss

v. sleep in a convenient place; "You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable" [syn: doss down, crash]

Wikipedia
DOSS

DOSS may refer to:

  • Danish Open Source Society
  • Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate
Doss (surname)

Doss is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alan Doss, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General
  • Bill Doss, musician
  • Desmond Doss, Medal of Honor recipient
  • Edwin A. Doss, American fighter pilot
  • James Doss, American author
  • Mike Doss, American football player
  • Nannie Doss, serial murderer
  • Alan Doss, drummer with Texan rock band Galactic Cowboys

Usage examples of "doss".

Richard Doss always sounded as if he was mocking someone or something.

My training is supposed to endow me with an open mind, but everyone develops preconceptions, and my mental picture of Richard Doss had been based upon what Judy Manitow had told me and five minutes of phone-sparring.

Joanne Doss began falling apart, remembered the decline, as had her father, as gradual, insidious, ending in grotesquerie.

Then she sees me, gives Daddy one of those we-have-to-talk-in-private looks, Doss asks me to please leave for a second.

Or had some other stress worked apart the fissures that had spidered their way across the perfect porcelain image of the Doss family?

Milo paced and smoked a Tipar-illo and I thought about the Doss family.

Goad says he took the dough but never intended to follow through, saw it as a perfect way to con Doss and cut town with a grand.

Police sources tell us that the man being questioned is Richard Theodore Doss, forty-six, a wealthy Pacific Palisades businessman and former husband of Joanne Doss, a woman whose suicide Dr.

Knowing he and I were firmly planted on opposite sides of the Doss investigation.

I was scragged to the bone, so tired I could barely keep my eyes open as I climbed the two flights of stairs to my doss in the La Jolla Apartments.

The drab wash of the rainy Auburn twilight leaked through the partially polarized window, giving the one-room doss a dull, tired illumination that perfectly suited my mood.

Mentally comparing the signs of the good life with my own doss in Auburn and with my final destination this evening, I let out a sigh.

I kept a secondary doss in Purity, paying my protection money to the Amerindian street gang in the area.

My place in Auburn is small, but my Redmond doss would fit in it with enough room left over for a pool table and clearance to make your shots.

I got out of there fast, and damn near flew back to my doss in the Barrens.