flophouse

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Recent Examples of flophouse After Chili's twin sister, Jellybean, was found dead in a Kansas City flophouse, Chili began a downward spiral and was eventually caught drinking on the job by Brett. Breanne L. Heldman, People.com, 18 July 2025 The place had opened a year and half before on the ground floor of a notorious Bowery flophouse called, with perfect New York irony, the Palace Hotel. Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025 And then there are all of Gov. Healey’s foreign freeloader flophouses. Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 June 2025 One regular, Milt, lived in the Whitehouse Hotel, a flophouse around the corner. Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flophouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flophouse
Noun
  • Down the beach Madam LeFleur stood on the porch of her boardinghouse beating slugs off a yak wool rug.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Her cousin becomes suspicious when Levi returns to the boardinghouse alone.
    Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • An individual seen wielding what appeared to be a firearm near a Massachusetts university dormitory, prompting a shelter-in-place order and large law enforcement response, has been identified as a juvenile holding an airsoft replica firearm, police said Thursday.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The sisters had initially used the mansion as a dormitory for students, but then converted it into a residence for themselves for most of the period of their ownership.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • What happened in the plaintiff’s TCU dorm room?
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
  • By Sharon Attia The New York Times Let’s be real, cooking in a college dorm isn’t always easy.
    The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Data shows crime in the city is down, homeless encampments have been cleared and hundreds of people accused of being in the US illegally have been detained.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In Tuesday's rankings, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression tanked IU's score largely because leadership cancelled a speaker in response to the anti-DEI movement and placed a sniper atop the student union during 2024's pro-Palestine encampment.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Flophouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flophouse. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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