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send to dorse (third-person singular simple present sends to dorse, present participle sending to dorse, simple past and past participle sent to dorse)

  1. (transitive, idiomatic, obsolete, slang) To throw (a person) onto their back; to knock out.
    • a. 1823, Fancy Gazette, quoted in 1823, John Badcock, Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life
      Gas now planted his favourite hit under the left listener of his antagonist, which sent him to dorse.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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