flophouse
Example Sentences
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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
Frank wanted to photograph them in a Main Street flophouse, the band storming downtown in a convoy of Cadillacs, but he didn’t have the $15 to pay the hotel clerk for a room.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2019
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
