doss houses
Low-rent overnight shelters
Doss houses are cheap lodging houses offering minimal accommodations—typically just a bed for the night.
The term is primarily British, associated with transient workers, the homeless, and those down on their luck: He spent his last coins on a doss house bed.
The singular doss house describes any such establishment.
To doss is to sleep rough or in makeshift quarters.
- lodgingsRented living space
- hostelsInexpensive shared accommodations
- vagrancyOffense of rootless wandering
- bunkhousesShared sleeping quarters for workers
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
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