doss
doss
Definition
doss (däs)
noun
Brit., Slang a bed or bunk, esp. in a dosshouse
Etymology: < L dorsum, the back
intransitive verb
Brit., Slang to sleep, esp. in a dosshouse
doss
Usage Examples
Preposition: on
- floor: These bothies have only basics: maybe a table and some chairs, with plenty of space to doss on the floor.
Converse of object
- find: Four-hour walk in from Coire Cas car park to find the doss decrepit, stinking and full of snow.
- have: I'm a first year, so having a doss!
Modifies a noun
- house: Many of them never sought even the shelter of a lodging-house, for the doss house charged not less than 4d.
- subject: It's not the doss subject that some people think.
Modifying Another Word
- just: Just dossed in the afternoon looking forward to having the weekend off.
- about: They dossed about, unemployed, for a couple of years.
Followed by an intransitive particle
Browse dictionary entries near doss
- dosimeter
- dose
- dosage
- Dos Passos
- dos and don'ts
- dos-à-dos
- DOS
- dory
- Dortmund
- Dort
- dossal
- dosser
- dosshouse
- dossier
- dossil
- dost
- Dostoevski
- dot
- dot-com
- dot-matrix
