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Meanings of doss in English

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ajeure's

Sleep in a convenient place.

        ajeure's
        Usage of doss in English
        1
        The place where we were quartered was a typical London doss house.
        A Yankee in the Trenches
        2
        They were still quarrelling when they staggered back to the doss-house kitchen.
        The Complete Jack the Ripper
        3
        But Higgins was not suggesting we should all go and doss.
        The Irish Times
        4
        We wander everywhere: into public houses, markets, tea-shops, doss-houses, public places, the harbour.
        Best Russian Short Stories
        5
        The Government was turning the Seanad into a "doss house" he claimed.
        The Irish Times
        6
        By day the streets are a depression, with their frowzy doss-houses and their vapour-baths.
        Nights in London
        7
        The little private doss-houses, as a rule, are unmitigated horrors.
        The People of the Abyss
        8
        The band slept wherever it could; now in suspicious dingy doss-houses, now on waste ground.
        Fruitfulness
        9
        If you want to look for them, I should try one of the doss houses.
        The Tempting of Tavernake
        10
        I guess I should walk to the port and doss down in the ferry terminal.
        Number9Dream
        11
        Let others work for their doss.Cairn about escaping.
        Climbing Magazine
        12
        Of all the criminals we have encountered in doss-houses, shelters, and labour-colonies, scarce a single one.
        Maxim Gorki
        13
        Everyone decided to doss down in the Liberty.
        Scoop
        14
        There being only four beds, one of us would have to doss down on the floor.
        Pushed and the Return Push
        15
        It sounds like a doss-house, or a commune.
        The Irish Times
        16
        Gutierrez and Jose Enrique doss around by the left-hand corner flag for what seems like hours.
        The Guardian
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        ajeure's
        Doss through the time