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flophouse

 

Definitions from WordNet

Noun flophouse has 1 sense
  1. flophouse, dosshouse - a cheap lodging house
    --1 is a kind of lodging house, rooming house

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Flophouse

Description:

A flophouse is a cheap, rundown accommodation that provides very basic and often inadequate lodging. It is typically associated with transient occupancy.

Sample Sentences:

  • The city was filled with flophouses that offered a roof over the heads of the homeless.
  • After losing his job, John had to share a room in a flophouse with four other people.
  • Many impoverished individuals found temporary shelter in the overcrowded flophouses of the industrial district.

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