flophouse
/ˈflɒphaʊs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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” […]."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈflɒphaʊs/
Usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Intransitive verb