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flop-house

flop-house is the alternative form of flophouse.

Meaning of flophouse

Noun

flophouse (plural flophouses)

  1. (US, slang) A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.
    • 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).1904, McClure’s Magazine, November 1904
    Synonyms:
    doss-house, flop

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Forms of flop-house

pluralflop-houses

Questions about flop-house

What is flop-house the alternative form of?
Flop-house is the alternative form of flophouse.

Words near flop-house in the dictionary

  1. flop sweat
  2. flop sweats
  3. flop tube
  4. flop tubes
  5. flop-eared
  6. flop-house
  7. flop-houses
  8. flopdock
  9. flopdom
  10. floperoo
  11. floperoos

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