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n. - Someone who sleeps in any convenient place.

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Usage examples (33)
  • "We reckon it's probably a dosser - crept in there to sleep and got hypothermia."
  • What would people think if they saw him rummaging through rubbish like some old dosser?
  • “I suppose you know that the dosser had been knocked on the head before being thrown into the water?”
  • Out of the pile of old newspapers that served to keep the dosser warm, Maigret had just pulled out a small painted toy horse with one leg broken.
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