1. a homeless person who sleeps in cheap lodging houses or on the streets
Usage: British informal
2. a lazy person who avoids work
Usage: British slang

Examples

• The shelter provided beds for dossers during the winter months.
• He spent years as a dosser before getting back on his feet.
• Don’t be such a dosser – help us move these boxes.
• The park was full of dossers sleeping on benches.
• She called him a dosser for refusing to look for work.
• The charity works with dossers to find them permanent housing.