FLOPHOUSE

flophouse, dosshouse

(noun) a cheap lodging house

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

flophouse (plural flophouses)

(US, slang) A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms. [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

• doss-house

• flop

Hypernyms

• house

Verb

flophouse (third-person singular simple present flophouses, present participle flophousing, simple past and past participle flophoused)

To stay in a flophouse.

Source: Wiktionary



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