"We reckon it's probably a dosser - crept in there to sleep and got hypothermia.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Frost]

What would people think if they saw him rummaging through rubbish like some old dosser?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

“I suppose you know that the dosser had been knocked on the head before being thrown into the water?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Bum]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Bum]

Maigret almost held his breath, and kept his eyes fixed on the dosser, who was gazing at him and who, slowly, made up his mind to look at the bargee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Bum]

Maigret realised then that he would extract nothing further from the dosser, and when the Ward Sister came to tell them they had stayed long enough, he did not protest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Bum]

From a no-hope dosser from a poor area of England's north east I learnt that no matter where you came from or what had happened to you the future was yours to grasp and shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Darling posed in front of the irrelevant SLAM beds waffling about this, “free floating number”, avoiding the dosser hovels they stuff heroes into, the family accommodation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-07] Reference

He half expected to disturb a dosser or perhaps even the boy they had been told to look out for, the seven-year-old who had gone out with his guy and still wasn't home at eleven o'clock at night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Frost]

"Winding up the dosser" turned out to involve paint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gates of Vienna] Reference

Campbell set to face new questions tomorrow on role in 'sexing up' Iraq WMD dosser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Gazette Latest News] Reference

Then half an hour later, a man called the 112 emergency number: "Come quickly, someone's set a dosser on fire".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gates of Vienna] Reference

Little Tim received this with a "quite right, old dosser," and then proposed that the meeting should adjourn, as he was expected back at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure] Reference

That night Bob Frog stood with his dosser, (i.e. his friend), Tim Lumpy, discussing their future prospects in the partial privacy of a railway-arch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure] Reference

"I say, Piggie," asked the waif before mentioned of his chum, (or dosser), Konky, "'ow long d'ee think little Mouse will go on at his present rate o' heavin '?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure] Reference

When Marius Follert and Niels Wildung first conceived of the 'Pennergame' - which takes its name from the German word for 'dosser' or 'bum' - they were still at school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE] Reference

Secure upon this point he digs up a nice lot and then fills up his dosser with two sorts of bulbous plants which secrete a glutinous substance but whose name and quality I have never found out.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)] Reference

I gave a quid to a dosser playing "Edelweiss" on the harmonica the other day, thinking to myself: if you can play "Edelweiss" on the harmonica, how in heaven's name have you got yourself into this state?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

“Life’s not easy for anyone …” the dosser went on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Bum]

A dosser would have to be pretty hard up for a bed to sleep on that. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Frost]

"None of their regular blokes or birds remember rousting a dosser from the area.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Presence of the Enemy]

(its no fun to arrive at past 9pm after 18 hours in the air to get let down by some useless dosser).    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

“Because the dosser was no longer there … dossers move around, too, and yours had settled underneath the Pont Marie ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Bum]

She must have been longing to ask him heaps of questions, but she confined herself to one, knowing her husband’s interest in the dosser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Bum]

“I’ve lived on the embankment for fifteen years now and this is the first time anyone’s attacked a dosser … For one thing we’re harmless people, you must know that better than anyone …”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Bum]

A lobby dosser, even.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away]

"Vell, I didn't go because of bein 'axed to go, you may be sure o' that, but my little dosser, Tim Lumpy, you remember 'im?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure] Reference

2) Detectives who investigate proper crime (not race, family, and anything PC/diversity) 3) Their managers; who should be experienced proper coppers like Gadget, not some dosser with a Sociology degree and zero experience of the front line.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Can Tell We’re Going To Be Friends « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

“You remember the bargee and the dosser?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Bum]

"We were looking for a dosser to wind up …".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gates of Vienna] Reference

Maigret & the dosser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Bum]

A dosser, and a pruning knife at his girdle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

"It's not a boy it's a man, probably a dosser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Frost]