flophouse

Example Sentences

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Most of them, a few hundred in all, lived in flophouse hotels.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2024

Sure, your mom might think your bedroom looks like a flophouse, but how many people are in your bedroom regularly?

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2020

On colder nights he would head to a flophouse, colored a bluish- purple next to another church.

From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2020

“He was a young father, he had a flophouse, he had the secondary life where he kept other things away from people… Everything came together as a bit of a perfect storm for him.”

From Fox News • Jan. 25, 2020

Dad called it a flophouse, but Mom said it was an SRO, and when I asked what that stood for, she told me the hotel was for special residents only.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls