cotch
/kɒtʃ
/(also kotch)
verb [no object] British informal
1Spend time relaxing: I’m still up—just been cotching on the sofa since I got in...
- I'm cotching on the beach with my man.
- I just wanna cotch with a few homies and sing some karaoke.
- Been cotching with movies all day.
1.1Stay or sleep somewhere on a temporary basis: looks like I’m cotching on the streets tonight...
- She's praying that Christmas will not catch her still 'cotching' with her granddaughter.
- Most of these homeless people are middle-aged or elderly men. They live on the streets or cotch at somebody's place.
- In the early years, he cotched in his mother-in-law's home.
Origin
Late 19th century (in Jamaican English, in sense 'rest, lean on something for support'): apparently a variant of scotch1.