flophouse
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈflɒphaʊs/
flophouse (plural flophouses)
- (US, slang) A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms. [from 20th c.]
- 1904, McClure’s Magazine, November 1904:
- 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).
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 34:
- He was born out back of a twopenny flophouse in what the wags called “The Holy Land” […].
- 1904, McClure’s Magazine, November 1904:
- lodging house
- workingmen's hotel
flophouse (flophouses, present participle flophousing; past and past participle flophoused)
- To stay in a flophouse.
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