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flophouse
[ flop-hous ]
flophouse
/ ˈflɒpˌhaʊs /
noun
- slang.a cheap lodging house, esp one used by tramps Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)dosshouse
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Word History and Origins
Origin of flophouse1
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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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