Flophouse
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈflɒphaʊs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Flophouse is a noun meaning (US, slang) A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.
Meaning
(US, slang) A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To stay in a flophouse.
Example Sentences
For old time's sake we plan to flophouse with you over the parturient period.
He was born out back of a twopenny flophouse in what the wags called “The Holy Land” […].
We even visited some drunken seamen in a flophouse on Mission Street that she knew; they offered us whisky.
August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana.
Word Forms
- flophouses
- flop-house
- flophousing
- flophoused
Synonyms for flophouse
Depending on context, synonyms include doss-house, flop, dosshouse.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dosshouse, flop-house, flop, frathouse, floogy, flopdom.
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