Definition of "flophouse" [flophouse]

• A cheap rundown hotel or boarding house. (noun)

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• "One of the guest rooms has been named after a long-term flophouse resident, nicknamed "Charlie Peppers" due to his love of peppers."
• "my mother told me she wouldn't let me turn her home into a "flophouse"."
• "It seems that when my father was courting my mother, he made up all sorts of stories about his fabulous wealth, when, in fact, he was living out of a suitcase in a Santa Monica flophouse, subsisting on cans of chili and Spam."