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flophouse

noun as in cheap hotel

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Example Sentences

They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake.

In his hand is a Bloody Mary, and his eyelids hang down his face like two broken blinds in a flophouse.

The theater job proves temporary, and after weeks of couch surfing McClear finds a bed at a flophouse called the Malibu Hotel.

The walls were paper-thin, and he could hear all comings-and-goings at his end of the flophouse.

The air of the city's cheapest flophouse was thick with the smells of harsh antiseptic and unwashed bodies.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flophouse, such as: fleabag, fleabox, fleahouse, fleatrap, flop joint, and run-down boarding house.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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