flophouse
- n a cheap lodging house
- And in this flophouse it engenders characters as straw breeds lice: a smalltime crook, a sentimental whore, a police spy who regularly gets beaten by his wife, an alcoholic actor .
- Since then the building has served as an army barracks, officers' mess, state guest house and, as it deteriorated, a flophouse for the occasional tourist.
- In Atlanta, one night in 1921, he and two flophouse companions held up and robbed a grocer of $5.