flophouse
Americannoun
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flophouses
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noun
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Sure, your mom might think your bedroom looks like a flophouse, but how many people are in your bedroom regularly?
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2020
On colder nights he would head to a flophouse, colored a bluish- purple next to another church.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 24, 2020
“He was a young father, he had a flophouse, he had the secondary life where he kept other things away from people… Everything came together as a bit of a perfect storm for him.”
From Fox News ● Jan. 25, 2020
I remember that every time I walked to author readings on Pearl Street, I’d pass a rambling but stately Victorian that had once been a flophouse but was now an association of amiable condos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2019
After a week, I have compiled the following survey: Gail is sharing a room in a well-known downtown flophouse for $250 a week.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
And sometimes the heartfelt songwriters, the ones capable of moonshine lullabies and Christmases that are both merry and bright, come from Lower East Side flophouses and saloons.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2019
CBGB’s, at 315 Bowery, has become a legend, but in those days it was a dive bar on the ground floor of one of the many flophouses that lined the avenue.
From Fox News ● Sep. 30, 2019
Churches and flophouses and theaters and homes and pubs are now Hermès, Burberry, Longchamp, Ferragamo.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2016
Only after he was starving and sleeping in flophouses did he tell them, “I’ve got no money and noplace to go,” and they were angry with him.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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