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doss down

slang To lie down and sleep. I was so tired that I just dossed down in the middle of the living room.
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doss down (for some time)

Sl. to lie down to sleep for a period of time. Chuck dossed down for a few hours before the evening performance. It's midnight: time to doss down.
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doss down

verb
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Many of them dossed down there, including al-Qaeda man Kamel Bourgass, who plotted a ricin nerve toxin attack in Britain and who is serving life for murdering a police officer in Manchester.
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Alan Shearer's army sent the reconnaisance platoons into Merseyside nearly 20 hours before the kick-off - and after sampling Lime Street's array of beers, they dossed down wherever they could on a dry night in parks or the backs of transit vans.
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Where once he proudly wore uniform, now he is seen dossed down in a sleeping bag in central London.
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Al-Qaeda suspect Kamel Bourgass, 31, who shot dead a policeman in Manchester before being convicted of a ricin plot, also dossed down there.
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Olokun, who dossed down with friends in Hackney, east London, was found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey.
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