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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

In Sacramento, the problem has exploded from a few hundred “inebriates” in flophouses to thousands in tents and encampments.

Most of them, a few hundred in all, lived in flophouse hotels.

“These are old, turn-of-the-century buildings. They used to be flophouses. It’s not an ideal living situation for a chronically homeless person to be in.”

For almost every character, the film is one hardship after another: late buses, empty wallets, a basement flophouse, capricious bullies.

The film captured the city’s most explosive bands tearing up their stages and flophouses, making Spheeris the poet laureate of disenchanted young Los Angeles.

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