flophouse
Americannoun
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flophouses
plural
noun
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Origin of flophouse
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Most of them, a few hundred in all, lived in flophouse hotels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
For almost every character, the film is one hardship after another: late buses, empty wallets, a basement flophouse, capricious bullies.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
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
Mom and Dad moved into a six-story flophouse in a more dilapidated neighborhood.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Sleeping in flophouses and on bus stop benches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
Towles revels in boxcars, flophouses and seedy bars, the junkyards of failed dreams.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021
Men have historically found refuge in cheap motels and flophouses along the Bowery, which has long welcomed the downtrodden with nowhere else to turn.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2019
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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