Thesaurus results for FLOPHOUSE

flophouse

noun

as in boardinghouse

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Recent Examples of flophouse Back in the day, the LaSalle Hotel was a flophouse, just about the only place for downtown residents. —

Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026 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 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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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