flophouse
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Is flophouse a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of flophouse?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (US, slang) A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.Examples: "In one of [Cincinnati’s] slum districts stands the Silver Moon, a “flop house” (i.e., a house where the occupants are “flopped” out of their hanging bunks by letting down the ropes)."; "We even visited some drunken seamen in a flophouse on Mission Street that she knew; they offered us whisky."; "He was born out back of a twopenny flophouse in what the wags called “The Holy Land” […]."Synonyms: doss-house, flopUSslang
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To stay in a flophouse.Examples: "August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana."; "I kept going nowhere, bummed the country, boxcar'd it, breadlined it, flophoused it, that cruddy dying by inches in jungles when, Christ-o, outa the knocked-out black and blue I'm told I gotta go to war, gotta fight for freedom."; "For old time's sake we plan to flophouse with you over the parturient period."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary