flophouses
- plural of flophouse.
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
Towles revels in boxcars, flophouses and seedy bars, the junkyards of failed dreams.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021
Through the first half of the 1980s, San Francisco added 2,000 hotel rooms through conversions, fashioning a new industry and tourist destinations from residential dwellings that were described at the time as flophouses.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2021
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
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
