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).
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Flophouse
/ˈflɒphaʊs/
Synonyms for "flophouse" (26 found)
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5 entriescheap flophousedive flophouseflophouse districtflophouse lodgingramshackle flophouse
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We even visited some drunken seamen in a flophouse on Mission Street that she knew; they offered us whisky.
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He was born out back of a twopenny flophouse in what the wags called “The Holy Land” […].
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August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana.
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