flophouse
noun
a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.
flophouses
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pluralof flophouse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
