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Definition of Doss down
1. Verb. Sleep in a convenient place. "You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable"
Definition of Doss down
1. Verb. (British slang)To sleep on someone's sofa or floor because there is no bed spare. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doss Down
Literary usage of Doss down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"V. Dosa, vn To doss down, vn To throw one's self down, to sit down with violence, S.
The pensy blades ..."
2. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"To doss down, vn To throw one's self down ; to sit down with violence, 8. Skinner.
DOSS, adj. Neat ; spruce, Clydes,—Teut. don-«n, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are Explained in by John Jamieson (1867)
"V. Doss, vn To doss down, vn To throw one's self down ; to sit down with violence,
S. Skinner. »OSS, udj. Neat ; spruce, Clydes,—Teut. dou-en, ..."
4. A Staff Officer's Scrap-book During the Russo-Japanese War by Ian Hamilton (1905)
"... certain that neither in India or South Africa would troops have been allowed
to " doss down" under canvas within such close proximity to the enemy. ..."
5. All in it: "K(1)" Carries on by Ian Hay (1917)
"You won't have to doss down in the cemetery itself, you know. These two streets
here —" he flicked a pencil —- "will hold practically all your battalion, ..."
6. A Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and by John Ogilvie (1855)
"In Scotland, to pay; as, to doss down money. DO'TANT, n. A dotard. [Shah.] DOTH.
(duth.)The irregular third person singular of Do, used in the solemn style. ..."
7. How We Escaped from Pretoria by James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane (1901)
"... who told you to doss down there ?" Le Mesurier said by mistake, " Mr Jansen,"
which was the name of the Dane who had passed us on to Moore. ..."
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