dossverb [ I usually + adv/prep ]
uk/dɒs/us/dɑːs/UK slangto sleep outside or in an empty building because you have no home and no money:
She was dossing in doorways until the police picked her up.
See also
dosshouse
also doss down to sleep somewhere without a bed:
Can I doss down at your house tonight, after the party?
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Homelessness
- bag lady
- be of/have no fixed abode/address idiom
- derelict
- dosser
- down-and-out
- hobo
- homeless
- hostel
- housing benefit
- mendicant
- on the streets idiom
- rough
- sleep
- soup kitchen
- street
- street people
- tramp
- traveller
- vagabond
- vagrant
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Animal physiology: sleep & sleeping
Phrasal verb(s)
doss around
dossnoun [ S ]
uk/dɒs/us/dɑːs/UK slanga doss
an activity that is easy or does not need hard work
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Easiness and simplicity
- (as) easy as pie/ABC/anything/falling off a log idiom
- at the push of a button idiom
- at the stroke of a pen idiom
- be (all) downhill idiom
- be child's play idiom
- breeze
- convincing
- foolproof
- friendly
- gift
- gimme
- give/hand sth to sb on a (silver) platter idiom
- rocket science
- sail
- sail through (sth)
- sb could do sth with one arm/hand tied behind his/her back idiom
- self-explanatory
- semi-skilled
- simple
- sweat
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