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What (who) is flophouse - definition
PLACE WITH CHEAP LODGING
Dosshouse; Doss-house; Transient hotel; Cage hotel; Flop house; Doss house; Kiphouse; Ewing Annex Hotel
flophouse
(flophouses)
A flophouse is a kind of cheap hotel in a city for people who have no home and very little money. (AM INFORMAL; in BRIT, use doss-house
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N-COUNT
flophouse
¦ noun informal, chiefly N. Amer. a dosshouse.
Flophouse
A flophouse (American English) or dosshouse (British English) is a place that offers very low-cost lodging, providing space to sleep and minimal amenities.
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Flophouse
A flophouse (American English) or dosshouse (British English) is a place that offers very low-cost lodging, providing space to sleep and minimal amenities.
Examples of use of flophouse
1. Those who don‘t have rooms in some shabby flophouse sleep on the pavement.
2. Black, who spends $'0 a week for a bed in a flophouse, says it‘s a job like any other.
3. "I took one draught of life, paid only the market price," he quotes from his At the Flophouse.
4. "In the flophouse where this was built in Leeds they had commercial grade refrigerators to keep the materials cool," Mr Kelly said.
5. He was seized at what was described as a "flophouse" for day laborers and he is being held in the county jail.