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dose
noun- a case of a sexually transmitted infection US, 1914
- God might punish him with an automobile accident, death, a dose. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 26, 1947
- “Wait a minute,” he yelled, “don’t you cunt-lappers know that’s Agnes, she’s got the biggest dose in Hartford, everybody knows that.” — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 298, 10 January 1951
- And I couldn’t get that, of course, until I got over the dose. — Jim Thompson, The Kill-Off, p. 81, 1957
- I think she’s got a dose. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 178, 1958
- “All you got is a little dose. You’ll be back on the hustle in two weeks.” — Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness, p. 36, 1960
- Hope you don’t pick up a dose or put her up the duff or anything like that. — Alexander Buzo, Rooted, p. 92, 1969
- I reckon I’ve copped a dose!!! — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- Ten years ago, one of her girls...one of Annie’s...gave me a...dose. — Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, p. 298, 1979
- I partied with one girl, one and took home a dose. — Elmore Leonard, Cat Chaser, p. 25, 1982
- The last letter I get from her was a denial that she had given me a dose, and a ground swelling indication that she was doing the outline for a gothic novel. — Odie Hawkins, Black Casanova, p. 92, 1984
- Ah, Greg, you short-arsed little twat. How’s the dose? Cleared up yet? — Colin Butts, Is Harry on the Boat?, p. 92, 1997
- a curse, a spell BAHAMAS
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 64, 1982
- an amount or quantity of something UK, 1607
- Italians may make “small doses” of torture legal[.] — The Independent, 23 April 2004
- a four-month prison sentence UK In earlier use (1860) as “three months’ hard labour”.
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 46, 1996
- a single experience with LSD US
- I’ve never had a bad one and I’ve taken at least two hundred doses. — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 95, 1967
- a dolt US
- — Current Slang, p. 6, Summer 1969
▶ like a dose of salts
very quickly, and effectively UK, 1837
From the laxative properties of Epsom Salts; especially as “go through something like a dose of salts”.- If there are signs of foetal distress, a doctor will opt for intervention like a dose of salts. — The Observer, 12 August 2001
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