Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doss house \Doss house\ A cheap lodging house.
They [street Arabs] consort together and sleep in low
doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy.
--W. Besant.
Usage examples of "doss house".
Better sleep the night in a hotel room or better yet, a doss house.
Annie Chapman did not normally travel from doss house to doss house, as many another destitute street walker did, but she had not been seen in Crossingham's.
I couldn't smell anything, even there in that stinking doss house, not a thing and I no longer had a sense of taste.
Had we restored the Hohenzollems in igig, Hitler might still be a ragged tramp, muttering to himself in a squalid Vienna doss house.
His once proud clothes were filthy rags, and he slept in a doss house, standing up in a line of men supported by ropes under their arms.
I must have sampled every doss house in London by the time I was through.