dosser

noun

dos·​ser ˈdä-sər 

plural dossers

British, informal + often disparaging : a homeless person

An increasing number of young dossers are also using trains parked for the night near Victoria station.

—Andrew North

The young Scottish painter Peter Howson transforms Glasgow dossers (street people) into heroic figures.

—Art News

Word History

Etymology

earlier, "person frequenting a cheap rooming house," from doss entry 1 + -er entry 2

First Known Use

1866, in the meaning defined above