Definition of "flophouses" [flophouses]

• Plural form of flophouse. (noun)

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• "All around the dock, taverns and flophouses crowded, eager to trade easy virtues for hard cash."
• "She opened to an article spread with many detailed drawings based on photographs of buildings and their insides: dirty children sleeping on wood floors, drunks in alleys, flophouses filled to the brim with raggedy men, boys in pants tied up with rope."
• "Built in the 1920s to accommodate 200 people, The Prince Hotel as it was called then, was one of dozens of flophouses which sprang up on New York's infamous Skid Row to give returning soldiers, down-and-outs and the down-on-their-luck a place to sleep."