Meaning of Flophouse | Babel Free

Definitions

A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.

US, slang

Equivalents

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” […].”

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