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doss about

doss about verb: to be idle, to shirk one's work or duty.

Verb

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

  1. (informal, intransitive) To be idle, to shirk one's work or duty.

Forms of doss about

third-person singular presentdosses about
present participledossing about
past participledossed about
pastdossed about

Questions about doss about

What does doss about mean?
Doss about means to be idle, to shirk one's work or duty.
What part of speech is doss about?
Doss about is a verb.
What is the past tense of doss about?
The past tense of doss about is dossed about.

Words near doss about in the dictionary

  1. Dosreis
  2. Dosreises
  3. DOSRI
  4. DOSRIs
  5. doss
  6. doss about
  7. doss around
  8. doss down
  9. doss house
  10. doss houses
  11. doss off

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