Flophouse

//ˈflɒphaʊs//

"Flophouse" in a Sentence (6 examples)

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).

We even visited some drunken seamen in a flophouse on Mission Street that she knew; they offered us whisky.

He was born out back of a twopenny flophouse in what the wags called “The Holy Land” […].

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

I kept going nowhere, bummed the country, boxcar'd it, breadlined it, flophoused it, that cruddy dying by inches in jungles when, Christ-o, outa the knocked-out black and blue I'm told I gotta go to war, gotta fight for freedom.

For old time's sake we plan to flophouse with you over the parturient period.

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