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flophouse
noun- an inexpensive, shoddy, tattered, dirty place to stay, catering to transients US, 1909
- He was not living in a flophouse this time–he lived in a Park Avenue hotel at $4.50 per day. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, p. 91, 23 August 1945
- Sweet dreams, all you flophouse grads. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 317, 1946
- Sandwiched between them are hockshops and the flophouses where homeless hobos rent a clean bed for two bits[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 62, 1948
- They were three noisy blocks, filled with pawn-shops, second-hand stores, pool-rooms, bail-bond brokers, beer joints, sidewalk hamburger stands, flop-houses, oil stations and narrow, messy parking lots[.] — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 177, 1948
- The guy would do anything for a few bucks, no questions asked, and the suitcase would be delivered to him at this flophouse he lived in. — Jim Thompson, After Dark, My Sweet, p. 103, 1955
- It looked like something that had been dragged out of the storeroom in an Egyptian flophouse. — Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction, p. 246, 1971
- No home, twenty-five cents a night in a flophouse. — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 295, 1978
- The Buckingham was a ten-story flophouse across from the Dempsy Greyhound station. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 222, 1992
- It’s not a flop house. It’s basic and simple. That doesn’t make it a flop house. — Quentin Tarantino, From Dusk Till Dawn, p. 42, 1995
- Fuckin flophouse. We’re still short on the rent. — Kids, 1995
- a brakevan (caboose) US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 62, 1977
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