dose
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9.9
- noun
- /doʊs/
- NSFW
:
enfermedad venérea
- May he catch three doses of clap.
- an infectious dose
- a healthy dose
- got a dose
Examples
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You catch yourself a dose.
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But that was before she discovered what a nice dose of the clap she'd gotten from him.
Fiction book (2001) -
Can I help it if my mother picked up a dose in the big one?
Fiction book (1990) -
Yeah, she says he had a real dose.
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You got a mild dose.
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Well, that's what a dose of reality will do to you.
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Son-of-a-bitch gave me a dose, and I'm here to collect for the doctor's bill.
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I believe that we've already had a fairly healthy dose of value deflation.
Blog text (17) -
Decades of indoctrination and a heavy dose of nationalist education created a deep sense of pride in being a Turk.
Academic text (2000) -
She was diagnosed with a dose of gonorrhea after her recent encounters.
Synonyms
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3.7
An infection you get through sexual contact
29
2.7
An illness you can get from someone when you have sex
7
3.7
A disease spread by sexual contact
6
7.4
A contagious infection spread by sexual contact
1
4.6
An illness that spreads through sexual contact, like syphilis or gonorrhea
1
5.8
A disease people get through sex
An old name for syphilis, a disease you get by sex
An infection you catch from another person during sex
An infection caught during sex, especially syphilis
Idioms
- Offensive
A thing that is very unpleasant or embarrassing, like a joke that is not funny
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.9
An extra vaccine dose given after the first doses to increase protection
- Specialized
A measurement of how much radiation a person or object receives that can harm the body
- Specialized
An extra vaccine or medicine given later to make the first one work well
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dose had an old slang meaning from the same Greek dosis 'a giving'. People used it to mean something 'given' to you that you might 'catch', so it was used for an infection passed between people.