flophouse
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flophouse
- /ˈflɒphaʊs/ UK
Where it comes from
From flop + house, originally hobo slang, presumably from slang flop (“lie down to sleep”).
noun flophouses · flop-house
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A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.
In one of [Cincinnati’s] slum districts stands the Silver Moon, a “flop house” (i.e., a house where the occupants are “flopped” out of their hanging bunks by letting down the ropes).
Similar: doss-house, flop
verb flophouses · flophousing · flophoused · flop-house
- To stay in a flophouse. August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana.
Talk about this word "flophouse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/flophouse. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. flophouse. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/flophouse "flophouse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/flophouse.Cite this
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title = {flophouse},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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