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dose

What does dose mean?

A person who's hard work. Whinging, draining, exhausting to be around — you've caught a 'dose' of them. Affectionate when it's family, cutting when it's not.

"She's an awful dose when she's had a few, won't shut up about her ex."

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What does dose mean?
A dose is an annoying person — or, by extension, the illness or bug that someone gave you.
How do you use dose in a sentence?
"He's an absolute dose," or "I've picked up a right dose off the kids."
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