flophouse
[ flop-hous ]
/ ˈflɒpˌhaʊs /
noun, plural flop·hous·es [flop-hou-ziz] /ˈflɒpˌhaʊ zɪz/.
a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.
Words nearby flophouse
floozy,
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flop forging,
flop sweat,
flop-eared,
flophouse,
flopover,
flopperoo,
floppers,
floppy,
floppy disk
Example sentences from the Web for flophouse
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 Stacks: Mr. Bad Taste and Trouble Himself: Robert Mitchum |Robert Ward |July 19, 2014 |DAILY BEASTThe theater job proves temporary, and after weeks of couch surfing McClear finds a bed at a flophouse called the Malibu Hotel.
'The Last of the Live Nude Girls': Sheila McClear’s Memoir |David Goodwillie |December 5, 2011 |DAILY BEASTThe walls were paper-thin, and he could hear all comings-and-goings at his end of the flophouse.
British Dictionary definitions for flophouse
flophouse
/ (ˈflɒpˌhaʊs) /
noun
US and Canadian slang
a cheap lodging house, esp one used by tramps
Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): dosshouse