flophouse
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flophouse englanniksi
A cheap hotel or house where many people sleep in large rooms. (defdate)
1904, ''McClure's|McClure’s Magazine,'' November 1904:
- 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).
(RQ:Kerouac On the Road)
{{quote-text|en|year=1982|author=TC Boyle|title=Water Music|page=34|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2006
To stay in a flophouse.
(quote-book)