flophouse
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For almost every character, the film is one hardship after another: late buses, empty wallets, a basement flophouse, capricious bullies.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
He hopped from one flophouse to the next, sending what little money he could earn from construction jobs back to his wife and children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
Part of the scheme involved an alleged plan to remove permit violations in the flophouse owned by Mr. Pelosi.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
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
Perhaps because he was nervous, or perhaps because he kept moving from one flophouse to another, he couldn’t remember his address.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
The film captured the city’s most explosive bands tearing up their stages and flophouses, making Spheeris the poet laureate of disenchanted young Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Towles revels in boxcars, flophouses and seedy bars, the junkyards of failed dreams.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021
CBGB’s, at 315 Bowery, has become a legend, but in those days it was a dive bar on the ground floor of one of the many flophouses that lined the avenue.
From Fox News ● Sep. 30, 2019
The $10-a-night flophouses that once housed the bohemian surfer crowd have largely been replaced by high-end boutique hotels, and more than a dozen new restaurants have opened in the last year alone.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2016
Only after he was starving and sleeping in flophouses did he tell them, “I’ve got no money and noplace to go,” and they were angry with him.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
