doss (down)

chiefly British
as in to bed
to go to one's bed in order to sleep he frequently plays host at his London flat, and overnight guests pretty much doss down where they please

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  • In the same time period, beds off of Palos Verdes rebounded 61%, with some areas recovering almost completely.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The trap is bedded in front of the hole, roughly nine inches from the entrance and 1 to 2 inches to the right.
    Skye Goode, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
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  • Green also served as the Justice of the Peace for Harris County, Texas, for 26 years, retiring in 2004 to run for Congress.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Mulvey, a 20-year Army veteran who retired in 2019, became an emergency management specialist at the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
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  • When Walmart turned in its final 2024 numbers last week, investors zeroed on its outlook and traded away more than $50 billion of the company’s market value.
    Evan Clark, WWD, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Duncan's version of The Kingpin is doubtless the most chilling portrayal the late actor ever turned in.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
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  • Slotkin’s spoke from Wyandotte, Michigan, a working-class community south of Detroit, as Democrats struggle to settle on a unified message to combat Trump, which was on full display Tuesday night as Trump delivered the longest address to Congress by a president in U.S. history.
    Joey Cappelletti, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • In the 1970s, his family immigrated to the U.S., settling first in Massachusetts and then in California, outside of Los Angeles.
    Alice Park, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
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  • By the end, there was a lot of napping in the cars.
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Payton stuck to his theme on a fourth-and-8 at the Broncos’ 43 about four minutes into the second stanza, catching the Bills napping on a nifty fake-punt pass from Riley Dixon to a wide-open Marvin Mims Jr.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2025
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  • Amid a crackdown on outdoor sleeping by Miami Beach police, the city’s unsheltered homeless population was 105 in an overnight count by the Homeless Trust in January, a 31% decrease from a year earlier.
    Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Within four hours of going to sleep, he was found unconscious and not breathing by Wallace.
    Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Doss (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doss%20%28down%29. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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