Sekirov Dictionary

flophouse

/ˈflɒphaʊs/

noun 1
verb 1
forms 3

noun1

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(US, slang) A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.
- In one of [Cincinnati’s] slum districts stands the Silver Moon, a “flop house” (i.e., a house where the occupants are “flopped” out of their hanging bunks by letting down the ropes). — 1904

verb1

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To stay in a flophouse.
- August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana. — 1941

forms

flophoused · flophousing · flophouses

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