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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of doss.

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Examples

  • We reached this spot just as night was falling, and "dossed" down.

    Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 1899

  • I dossed down in a bedsit in adjoining Marloes Road – catching a Greenline bus each morning for shifts on the Slough Observer – and Willie and I occasionally laughed and drank in the Princess of Teck local; that summer of 1962 we watched the Pakistanis at Lord's and had a memorable day together at the Wimbledon tennis.

    Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating 2011

  • The butterfly was in the episode where the guy was dossed with heavy hallucinogenics.

    Solution to the Fringe Glyph Cipher 2009

  • We meet by the river in Cambridge where McGrath dossed his way to a third-class degree and returned to live with his second wife, Nicola.

    Rory McGrath: 'Look away now, Mum!' 2011

  • The people who dossed around in school or got pregnant too early and never studied in their evenings have now been raised up to parity with some people at least who did study hard, who kept their legs together before marriage or at least remembered how to count to 28 when they didn't and were lucky, I must admit.

    [incentives] or one size fits all 2009

  • Not only did she send me great prezzies .. the teenies LOVE the outer box that was used to deliver them!! hehehe lovely lovely lovely Enola pleased everyone in my house a million zillion times over!!! lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovesomuchlove we dossed around for most of the morning then went to visit my parents ... each set seperately of course and both visits filled me to the toe top full of love love love love love!!!!!!!!!

    the-moo Diary Entry the-moo 2005

  • The rest dossed down in the Placehold for what remained of the night.

    The Burning City Larry Niven 2000

  • Then I dossed on the bed again until it was time to start getting ready for my appointment with George and the paella.

    Some by Fire Pawson, Stuart 1999

  • But that someone had dossed here briefly and recently ...

    In the Presence of the Enemy George, Elizabeth 1996

  • If she was this careful and I was fool enough to admit that I dossed in the park she'd probably stick me in some garret over her stables, with that businessman of hers counting the teaspoons every time I went for a pee.

    The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981

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