noun
- a cheap hotel or lodging house offering basic accommodations, typically for transient or low-income people
Usage: informal
Examples
- The homeless man found shelter in a downtown flophouse for the night.
- During the Great Depression, many workers stayed in flophouses while looking for jobs.
- The old flophouse had thin walls and shared bathrooms down the hall.
- She paid five dollars to sleep in the flophouse’s cramped room.
- The city inspector found numerous safety violations at the rundown flophouse.
- Travelers on tight budgets often stayed at the local flophouse near the train station.