flophouse


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flop·house

 (flŏp′hous′)
n.
A cheap rundown hotel or boarding house.
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flophouse

(ˈflɒpˌhaʊs)
n
(Social Welfare) slang US and Canadian a cheap lodging house, esp one used by tramps. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): dosshouse
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flop•house

(ˈflɒpˌhaʊs)

n., pl. -hous•es (-ˌhaʊ zɪz)
a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.
[1890–95]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.flophouse - a cheap lodging house
lodging house, rooming house - a house where rooms are rented
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Translations

flophouse

[ˈflɒphaʊs] N (flophouses (pl)) [ˈflɒphaʊzɪz] (US) → pensión f de mala muerte, fonducha f
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flophouse

n (dated US inf) → billige Absteige, Penne f
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I know Britain has its problems and I know it's the job of a prime minister to fix them, but I'm also sick to death of living in the fantasyland Britain imagined by the Left -- a Victorian flophouse of endless suffering, where a racist lurks behind every corner and the Arctic has shrunk so small that bankers use it for ice cubes.
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The first success came when he partnered with Atelier Ace to help develop the Ace Hotel New York in 2009, turning a rundown flophouse into a round-the-clock social hub by mixing the style of Manhattan nightlife with an old-school sense of hospitality.
The hovel where she lives with her drunken-wreck mom, Barb (Bridget Everett) and wheelchair-bound Nana (Cathy Moriarty) is more flophouse than home, and it's easy to imagine why she's eager to get out.
Its catalyst is not a luxury resort but a rough-hewn restoration of a 106-year-old former flophouse. Its characters are epic: the cowboy hat-wearing matriarch, the contractor who hunts with a bow and arrow.
When Schwartz died in 1966, at the age of 52, he was living alone in a Times Square flophouse, and his body lay in the city morgue for days before it was identified.
Bacich, the owner of a liquor store, a bar, and a flophouse in what was known as Skid Row in Minneapolis during the 1950s, long before the neighborhood fell into disrepair.
Viceland is launching with six original series, all with names that seem designed to give any stray viewer unaware of the H2/Viceland switch the vapors, including "F--k, That's Delicious," "Flophouse," and "Weediquette." As with other cable networks, though, these original series don't air new episodes until 10 p.m.
After a period as a flophouse it was reinvented as a chic, distinctly bohemian hotel.
When Hamister first announced his hotel project in 2012, the flea bag flophouse was to haven cost $22.4 million.
The action is in–depth and involves a procession of seedy characters, including corrupt cops, shady vice den owners and the inhabitants of a seedy flophouse.