doss down

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doss down (third-person singular simple present dosses down, present participle dossing down, simple past and past participle dossed down)

  1. (British, slang) To sleep on someone's sofa or floor because there is no bed spare.
    After the party, John let me doss down on the living-room floor.
    • 2002, Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 10:
      The fastidious and solitary public-schoolboy [George Orwell] dosses down with tramps and tarts and forces himself to endure bedbugs and chamberpots and lockups.
  2. (military, slang) To sleep.

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