flophouse
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of flophouse
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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
Frank wanted to photograph them in a Main Street flophouse, the band storming downtown in a convoy of Cadillacs, but he didn’t have the $15 to pay the hotel clerk for a room.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2019
She has left the flophouse and her annoying roommate and is back to living in her truck.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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