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flophouses

flophouses is the plural of flophouse.

flophouses is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Questions about flophouses

What is flophouses the plural of?
Flophouses is the plural of flophouse.

Words near flophouses in the dictionary

  1. flopdom
  2. floperoo
  3. floperoos
  4. flophouse
  5. flophoused
  6. flophouses
  7. flophousing
  8. flopless
  9. flopover
  10. flopovers
  11. floppa

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