(chiefly, British, idiomatic) To live and sleep outdoors or in a rough or makeshift shelter, not having a proper home or abode.
(chiefly, British, idiomatic) To live and sleep outdoors or in a rough or makeshift shelter, not having a proper home or abode.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(slang, UK) To sleep outside; to camp; to sleep rough.
British slang meaning to sleep rough or bed down outside, typically used in the context of homelessness, camping out without gear, or crashing somewhere improvised in the open air. It extends the broader doss vocabulary — doss means to sleep or crash somewhere casual — with the out specifying an outdoor location. Often used without judgment, describing a practical situation rather than a moral one.
Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
(intransitive, slang) To stop behaving in a civilized way; to rebel against one's cultural mores.
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(US, informal) The lowest class of people; the rabble.