Meanings
present singular third person dosses down · participle present dossing down · participle past dossed down · past dossed down
- UKslangTo sleep on someone's sofa or floor because there is no bed spare.
After the party, John let me doss down on the living-room floor.
1 more example
The fastidious and solitary public-schoolboy [George Orwell] dosses down with tramps and tarts and forces himself to endure bedbugs and chamberpots and lockups.
2002, Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 10 - slanggovernmentTo sleep.
Synonyms & antonyms
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