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doss
noun- sleep US, 1894
- — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 235, 1948: “A glossary of Harlemisms”
- I said, “Sugar, let’s cop some ‘doss.’” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 116, 1969
- After I had the fix of boy it caused me to wantta get my nuts outta pawn and since I knew Chuck was beat for doss, I told him I was gonna lay and free my nuts from the pressure they were under. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 71, 1973
- a waste of time UK
- I’m not going to become anything, I ain’t going to be able to do anything [paid work] so why bother, it [school] was a big doss. — S. Bowlby, S. Lloyd Evans and R. Mohammad, Cool Places, p. 238, 1998
- an easy thing to do UK
- Fucking doss on the telly putting your skis on. Not so easy in real life. — Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bread in Wengen, p. 186, 1999
- [O]n the surface Grendon may appear as a “doss” (con-speak for something easy). — Noel “Razor” Smith, A Rusty Gun, p. 5, 2010
- an attractive female US
- — Current Slang, p. 21, Fall 1968
- a brakevan (caboose) US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 47, 1977
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