Definition of flophouse
: a cheap rooming house or hotel
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The assassin James Earl Ray shot King, who was standing on the balcony, from a flophouse bathroom across the street.
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He and his wife, who is five months pregnant, sleep at a flophouse provided for free by a local transportation company.
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He and his wife, who is five months pregnant, sleep at a flophouse provided for free by a local transportation company.
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He and his wife, who is five months pregnant, sleep at a flophouse provided for free by a local transportation company.
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He and his wife, who is five months pregnant, sleep at a flophouse provided for free by a local transportation company.
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As a young adult Georges settles in Portland, Oregon, where her home becomes a kind of artists’ commune-cum-flophouse, throbbing with punk energy and alternative creativity, but hardly ideal for a dog of nervous temperament.
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Compare him with Hitler, the dank, sexless, humorless, milk-drinking vegetarian invert, nursing dreams, in his Viennese flophouse, of Judaeocide and world domination.
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While reporting on free love and flower children, Ms. Didion encountered a harrowing scene inside a flophouse, where a 5-year-old girl was tripping on LSD.
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First Known Use of flophouse
1916
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Definition of flophouse for English Language Learners
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: a very inexpensive hotel for poor people who do not have anywhere else to live
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