chinch pad noun an inexpensive, shoddy boarding house or hotel US,1958
— Clarence Major, DictionaryofAfro-AmericanSlang, p. 36, 1970
Vermin-infested flops were also called flea houses, flea boxes, flea traps, bug houses, louse traps, louse cages, scratch houses, and chinch pads. — Irving Lewis Allen, TheCityinSlang, p. 156, 1993