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Recent Examples of flophouse
The place had opened a year and half before on the ground floor of a notorious Bowery flophouse called, with perfect New York irony, the Palace Hotel.
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Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
And then there are all of Gov. Healey’s foreign freeloader flophouses.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 June 2025
Decrepit office buildings and flophouse hotels have been remade into pricey lofts and townhouses, the coolest address being where prizefighters Depp and Heard went at it tooth and nail, an art deco masterpiece called the Eastern Guardian Building, with its eerie clock tower and greenish glow.
—David Weiss, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
One regular, Milt, lived in the Whitehouse Hotel, a flophouse around the corner.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
And then there are all of Gov. Healey’s foreign freeloader flophouses.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 June 2025
Decrepit office buildings and flophouse hotels have been remade into pricey lofts and townhouses, the coolest address being where prizefighters Depp and Heard went at it tooth and nail, an art deco masterpiece called the Eastern Guardian Building, with its eerie clock tower and greenish glow.
—David Weiss, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
One regular, Milt, lived in the Whitehouse Hotel, a flophouse around the corner.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flophouse
Noun
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The daughter of a widowed boardinghouse keeper, Mary moved with her mother to Manhattan and, as a teenager, began working behind the counter at John Anderson’s Liberty Street Cigar Shop in Lower Manhattan.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Down the beach Madam LeFleur stood on the porch of her boardinghouse beating slugs off a yak wool rug.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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She was last seen on May 25, 1996, walking with Flores, a fellow first-year student, toward her dormitory on the San Luis Obispo campus after a party.—
Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
28 Oct. 2025
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It’s broken down into the runway misadventures from each of his 12 shows, offers 11 irreverent Rules of Design, and is a lesson on how to turn a dormitory dream into a global brand.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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For the design of Rory’s shabby-chic dorm suite, Crasco reflected on her own overnight stay on the New Haven, Connecticut, campus back in high school.—
Mara Reinstein,
Architectural Digest,
30 Oct. 2025
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In the book, an unnamed narrator moves into the Kennedy dorm room once occupied by Foster Dade, who had transferred to the boarding school in 2008 but was later expelled due to a scandal that the narrator investigates over the course of years.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
30 Oct. 2025
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For years, San Diego was largely barred from taking down encampments next to highways because that land is overseen by Caltrans and therefore under state jurisdiction.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Oct. 2025
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Prosecutors said Howe, who was upset his girlfriend was dating Estrada, went to the encampment and found the woman with Estrada.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Flophouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flophouse. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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