flophouse
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈflɑːˌhaʊs/
- Archaic
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pensión
- The flophouse on the corner offers beds for those who can't afford regular hotels.
Examples
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Reuben, who'd been paying weekly rates at a flophouse, would move in with us for a couple of days.
Fiction book (1996) -
This property was home to historic flophouses and, a long time ago, to Fair Haven's fancy ladies.
Fiction book (1994) -
The flophouse is two doors down below.
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It's a flophouse down at 4th and Commercial.
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Years ago, it had been a flophouse called Mother's.
Fiction book (1997) -
I'll die broke in a downtown Los Angeles flophouse.
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By the time the Beats made it their meeting place, it was a flophouse with bullet holes in the walls.
Blog text (3) -
Back when this place was a flophouse for junkies and homeless people.
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Since then I've been mostly wandering around Kescogee; last night, instead of the park, I slept in a flophouse.
Fiction book (1991) -
Jazz was born in a little flophouse in New Orleans, and it's just because people were crammed in there, they spoke five different languages, they couldn't talk to each other.
Synonyms
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8.9
A cheap, dirty hotel in bad condition
A very cheap place where people with little money stay overnight
Antonyms
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2.1
A very comfortable, expensive hotel with excellent service and many facilities
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word flophouse comes from the verb flop meaning 'to fall or lie down suddenly' and house. So a flophouse is a very cheap place where tired people can 'flop' down to sleep, which explains its meaning as a run-down, low-cost lodging.