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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

doss down en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (UK, slang) To sleep on someone's sofa or floor because there is no bed spare.
    • 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:
    • After the party, John let me doss down on the living-room floor.
  2. (slang) To sleep.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
dossed down Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dossed down Tense=Past lexicographic
dossing down Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dosses down Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

crash