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doss house

doss house is the alternative form of doss-house.

Meaning of doss-house

Noun

doss-house (plural doss-houses)

  1. A place where homeless people can sleep for the night.
    • W. Besant
      They [street Arabs] consort together and sleep in low doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy.

Forms of doss house

pluraldoss houses

Questions about doss house

What is doss house the alternative form of?
Doss house is the alternative form of doss-house.

Words near doss house in the dictionary

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

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