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View synonyms for flophouse

flophouse

[ flop-hous ]

noun

, plural flop·hous·es [flop, -hou-ziz].
  1. a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.


flophouse

/ ˈflɒpˌhaʊs /

noun

  1. slang.
    a cheap lodging house, esp one used by tramps Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)dosshouse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of flophouse1

First recorded in 1890–95; flop + house
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Example Sentences

They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake.

In his hand is a Bloody Mary, and his eyelids hang down his face like two broken blinds in a flophouse.

The theater job proves temporary, and after weeks of couch surfing McClear finds a bed at a flophouse called the Malibu Hotel.

The walls were paper-thin, and he could hear all comings-and-goings at his end of the flophouse.

The air of the city's cheapest flophouse was thick with the smells of harsh antiseptic and unwashed bodies.

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