Definition of "flophouse" in İngilizce

noun

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).

verb

1. (intransitive) To stay in a flophouse.