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Meaning of doss down | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To sleep on someone's sofa or floor because there is no bed spare.
    British, slang
  2. To sleep.
    slang

Examples

“After the party, John let me doss down on the living-room floor.”
“The fastidious and solitary public-schoolboy [George Orwell] dosses down with tramps and tarts and forces himself to endure bedbugs and chamberpots and lockups.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

doss off doss out dossed dossed about dossed around dossed down

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