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doss out

doss out verb: to sleep outside.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, slang) To sleep outside.

Forms of doss out

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

Questions about doss out

What does doss out mean?
Doss out means to sleep outside.
What part of speech is doss out?
Doss out is a verb.
What is the past tense of doss out?
The past tense of doss out is dossed out.

Words near doss out in the dictionary

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

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