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flophouse

noun

Definition of flophouse

as in boardinghouse

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Recent Examples of flophouse In one stunning moment, Marty, trying to take a shower in a flophouse, ends up falling through the ceiling and onto a shady man (Abel Ferrara) trying to give his dog a bath in the unit below. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2026 In a recurring theme, an unmarried female Haitian in the flophouse is pregnant. — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 27 Dec. 2025 Many of the locals worked in factories and slept in flophouses. — Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025 What was built was a 29-story baby-poop brown block of a building that looked like a cheap heating unit jutting out of a wall in a flophouse apartment. — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2016 See All Example Sentences for flophouse

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Noun

Set in 1940s Mexico, the book follows a con artist who becomes intertwined in the schemes of a boardinghouse owner and her niece.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
As always, verisimilitude and the supernatural exist side by side in this tale of the denizens of a boardinghouse in Pittsburgh.

— Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 15 May 2026

Definition of boardinghouse

Noun

The strikes sparked fires in five districts of the city, damaging residential buildings, office and industrial sites, a dormitory and vehicles, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
The new modular jail is expected to provide about 100 beds across cells and dormitory-like areas.

— Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026

Definition of dormitory

Noun

Perhaps living dorm-style, students buy groceries in smaller quantities.

— Alexandra Phelps, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026
The researchers observed this pattern in multiple settings, including conversations between strangers, first-year college students getting to know dorm mates and adults participating in a personal development workshop.

— Kim Meninger, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of dorm

Noun

Homeless encampments that serve as places for drug addicts to shoot up line several vacant and overgrown lots.

— Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026
Ormund is introduced in the third-season premiere issuing orders at his army’s encampment and then, with a put-upon air, closely sniffing his pomander as if offended by the whole dreary business.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 July 2026

Definition of encampment

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