flophouse

• It used to be an old flophouse, on the other side of town, and they moved it from one site to the other over two days. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 04] - In Big Trouble
• She'd applied for a job as a night cleaning woman less than a month ago—clearly with the intent of killing Draconis Late at night, when Bertha was at work, Kyle slipped off to her dingy room in what could only be called a flophouse. —  Analog SFF, November 2006
• "The wear on me was minimal And here you are in a flophouse," I said. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 02 - February 2002
• The place changed dramatically from a flophouse to a place where families lived. —  Report This!: JoeWessels.Net
• Then Ed starts a rapid downward slide, hitting the booze hard, and ultimately kicks the bucket from a combination heart attack and liver failure, forgotten and alone in a flophouse. —  Wonkette » top

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