doss down
doss down verb: to sleep on someone's sofa or floor because there is no bed spare.
Verb
doss down (third-person singular simple present dosses down, present participle dossing down, simple past and past participle dossed down)
- 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.
- The fastidious and solitary public-schoolboy [George Orwell] dosses down with tramps and tarts and forces himself to endure bedbugs and chamberpots and lockups.2002, Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 10
- To sleep.
Synonyms of doss down
Forms of doss down
| third-person singular present | dosses down |
|---|---|
| present participle | dossing down |
| past participle | dossed down |
| past | dossed down |
Questions about doss down
- What does doss down mean?
- Doss down means to sleep on someone's sofa or floor because there is no bed spare.
- What part of speech is doss down?
- Doss down is a verb.
- What is the past tense of doss down?
- The past tense of doss down is dossed down.
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