flophouse
Origin of flophouse
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How to use flophouse in a sentence
They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake.
Up to a Point: They Made Me Write About Lena Dunham | P. J. O’Rourke | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 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 | THE 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 | THE DAILY BEASTThe walls were paper-thin, and he could hear all comings-and-goings at his end of the flophouse.
The air of the city's cheapest flophouse was thick with the smells of harsh antiseptic and unwashed bodies.
Badge of Infamy | Lester del Rey
British Dictionary definitions for flophouse
/ (ˈflɒpˌhaʊs) /
US and Canadian slang a cheap lodging house, esp one used by tramps: Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): dosshouse
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