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plural bivvies
(colloquial) A small tent or shelter. quotations examples
It would be alarming and disconcerting if people sleeping on roll-mats in central London emerged from their bivvies at breakfast, box-fresh, and sporting a crease down each leg of their slacks.
2011 November 12, Caitlin Moran, ‘Protestors? They're Beautiful’, The Times
third-person singular simple present bivvies, present participle bivvying, simple past and past participle bivvied
To erect, or to stay in, such a tent or shelter. examples
(UK, slang, obsolete) Beer. quotations
Well, if you're willing to sub me a shant of bivvy, then I'll tell ya
2016, Christopher James, Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Ruby Elephants