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dosshouse

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dosshouse [ˈdɒsˌhaʊs]
n
(Social Welfare) Brit slang a cheap lodging house, esp one used by tramps US name flophouse
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Noun1.dosshouse - a cheap lodging house
flophouse
lodging house, rooming house - a house where rooms are rented
Translations
dosshouse [ˈdɒshaʊs] N (dosshouses (pl)) [ˈdɒshaʊzɪz] (Brit) → pensión f de mala muerte
dosshouse
n (Brit inf) → Penne f (inf), → Obdachlosenheim nt
dosshouse [ˈdɒsˌhaʊs] n (Brit) (fam) → dormitorio pubblico
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It was nicknamed the Dosshouse,' says Hurn, 'because every struggling photographer passed though there at the time and slept on the floor.
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The South Americans had deliberately messed us about, originally booking the team into what was no better than a dosshouse on the outskirts of the capital until Big Jock made us leave before a bag was unpacked.
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