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In some senses, flophouse is marked as slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
flophouse
/ˈflɒphaʊs/
noun 1verb 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
over, twopenny
VERB + FLOPHOUSE
plan
FLOPHOUSE + NOUN
mission, street
PREP.
in, in, on, with
Definitions
noun
1
A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.
In one of [Cincinnati’s] slum districts stands the Silver Moon, a “flop house” (i.e., a house where the occupants are “flopped” out of their hanging bunks by letting down the ropes).
We even visited some drunken seamen in a flophouse on Mission Street that she knew; they offered us whisky.
verb
1
To stay in a flophouse.
August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana.
I kept going nowhere, bummed the country, boxcar'd it, breadlined it, flophoused it, that cruddy dying by inches in jungles when, Christ-o, outa the knocked-out black and blue I'm told I gotta go to war, gotta fight for freedom.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a cheap lodging house
- dosshouse
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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In one of [Cincinnati’s] slum districts stands the Silver Moon, a “flop house” (i.e., a house where the occupants are “flopped” out of their hanging bunks by letting down the ropes).
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We even visited some drunken seamen in a flophouse on Mission Street that she knew; they offered us whisky.
Wiktionary03
He was born out back of a twopenny flophouse in what the wags called “The Holy Land” […].
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August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana.
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I kept going nowhere, bummed the country, boxcar'd it, breadlined it, flophoused it, that cruddy dying by inches in jungles when, Christ-o, outa the knocked-out black and blue I'm told I gotta go to w
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For old time's sake we plan to flophouse with you over the parturient period.
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