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Flophouse

//ˈflɒphaʊs// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms. US, slang

    "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)."

  2. 2
    a cheap lodging house wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To stay in a flophouse. intransitive

    "August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From flop + house, originally hobo slang, presumably from slang flop (“lie down to sleep”).

Etymology 2

From flop + house, originally hobo slang, presumably from slang flop (“lie down to sleep”).

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