doss

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

doss, v. & n. Brit. sl.
--v.intr. (often foll. by down) sleep, esp. roughly or in cheap lodgings.
--n. a bed, esp. in cheap lodgings.

Idiom

doss-house a cheap lodging-house, esp. for vagrants.

Etymology

prob. = doss ornamental covering for a seat-back etc. f. OF dos ult. f. L dorsum back

THESAURUS

doss

assembly-line housing, beauty sleep, bed, beddy-bye, bedstead, bedtime, billeting, blanket drill, bunk, bye-bye, couch, domiciliation, doze, dreamland, drowse, fitful sleep, get some shut-eye, gurney, hibernation, hospitality, housing, housing bill, housing development, housing problem, kip, land of Nod, light sleep, litter, living quarters, lodging, lodgment, lower-income housing, pound the ear, quartering, repose, shut-eye, silken repose, sleep, sleepland, sleepwalking, slum clearance, slumber, slumberland, snooze, snoozle, sofa, somnambulism, somniloquy, somnus, stretcher, subdivision, take forty winks, the hay, the sack, tract, transient lodging, unconsciousness, urban renewal, winter sleep