flophouse
Americannoun
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flophouses
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noun
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Origin of flophouse
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The setting of McPherson’s play is a flophouse in Depression-era Duluth, Minn., the port city where Dylan was born in 1941.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024
Part of the scheme involved an alleged plan to remove permit violations in the flophouse owned by Mr. Pelosi.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
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
“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
Perhaps because he was nervous, or perhaps because he kept moving from one flophouse to another, he couldn’t remember his address.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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
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
Nearby flophouses with optimistic names like Hotel Arizona and House of Dreams were quiet.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2015
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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