flophouse

/flop-hous/US // ˈflɒpˌhaʊs //UK // (ˈflɒpˌhaʊs) //

扇形屋,扇子屋,扇形房屋,扇形小屋

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n.名词 noun

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plural flop·hous·es [flop-hou-ziz]. /ˈflɒpˌhaʊ zɪz/.
- : a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.

nouncheap hotel

Synonyms

They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake.
In his hand is a Bloody Mary, and his eyelids hang down his face like two broken blinds in a flophouse.
The theater job proves temporary, and after weeks of couch surfing McClear finds a bed at a flophouse called the Malibu Hotel.
The walls were paper-thin, and he could hear all comings-and-goings at his end of the flophouse.
The air of the city's cheapest flophouse was thick with the smells of harsh antiseptic and unwashed bodies.