The term flophouse has cracked me up ever since. From Wordnik.com. [At the Striped Wall With Tulips Low-Angle Café...] Reference
My mother told me she wouldn't let me turn her home into a "flophouse". From Wordnik.com. [At the Striped Wall With Tulips Low-Angle Café...] Reference
The Doral was a decrepit, paint-peeling flophouse. From Wordnik.com. [Roses are Red]
Floppin 'Round Tampa I started out in a flophouse. From Wordnik.com. [Brother Ray]
Althouse, flophouse, let's call the whole thing off. From Wordnik.com. [At the Striped Wall With Tulips Low-Angle Café...] Reference
The hotel in question is the Elk Hotel, a flophouse. From Wordnik.com. [Old 42nd Street Ain't Gone Yet] Reference
Then you wait the whole day for a bed in a flophouse. From Wordnik.com. [Tours of the Black Clock] Reference
They found a taxi idling in front of an old flophouse. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
They took rooms at a flophouse hotel onTelegraph Avenue. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 6] Reference
KING: Jon Voight lived in a flophouse for "Midnight Cowboy.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 10, 2003] Reference
The flophouse they seek out for a tryst is raided by the police. From Wordnik.com. [Writer's Block . . . Stefan Zweig] Reference
His first hotel was nothing more than a flophouse for oil-field roustabouts. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy Jo Sales on Paris and Nicky Hilton] Reference
But the trouble you started by grabbing me out of that flophouse has spread. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
If I didn't catch anything in that flophouse, why would I catch anything now?. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
"I suppose he gets used to stepping over bodies, that flophouse where he lives.". From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
If there were fire near the flophouse I might have stayed becuase it would be WARM. From Wordnik.com. [Fire | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Now won't that be charming when the last flophouse has turned you down this winter?. From Wordnik.com. [Remember Me to Harlem] Reference
A precarious flophouse with a questionable past it is both a sculpture and a metaphor. From Wordnik.com. [John Seed: Michael C. McMillen: Every Dream Is New] Reference
At the moment, Starbucks is as inviting as the lobby of a flophouse down on the Bowery. From Wordnik.com. [At Heart, I'm A Provincial New Yorker] Reference
She has left the flophouse and her annoying roommate and is back to living in her truck. From Wordnik.com. [Nickel and Dimed]
The pay phone was in the second-story hallway of a flophouse that stank of poor plumbing. From Wordnik.com. [Fat Tuesday]
Things were really not that different from the raving drunkards at Greg's flophouse hotel. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 8] Reference
It looked like something that had been dragged out of the storeroom in an Egyptian flophouse. From Wordnik.com. [Another Roadside Attraction]
Hmmm. I can't figure out it that sounds like a flophouse in Harlem, or a nail salon in Detroit. From Wordnik.com. [haloaskew Diary Entry] Reference
It was a nice alberque, the other in town not as good and the one in Estella had been a flophouse. From Wordnik.com. [Part 5: El Camino de Santiago] Reference
I was annoyed, but it didn't seem worthwhile to make a fuss; I knew I was headed for that flophouse. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
My apartment still needs a few more things to make it home-like instead of something like a flophouse. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
After following a trail of blood, police arrested the alleged robber shortly after midnight Monday at a flophouse. From Wordnik.com. [Salon Robbery Foiled By Off Duty Police Officer Getting Her Hair Done] Reference
Can you think of a better place than a flophouse for a man who doesn't want to be disturbed while he's busy with it?. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
With the first burst of success, the Dandies go to the BJM flophouse early in the morning for a surprise photo shoot. From Wordnik.com. [I always come back to you, I'm just a bad penny] Reference
Mr. Kristal doesn't glorify the days when the club, below a flophouse, was among the neighborhood's only functioning storefronts. From Wordnik.com. ["you want old stuff? go to europe."] Reference
You've manipulated this whole deal from the moment you snatched me out of that flophouse, where I was dying decently and quietly. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
There were still electric lights, but they looked old and long-used, like the kind of fixtures one might find in a flophouse hotel. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Tower]
People of Wal Mart is a very American pick up of a people we meet upon an normal day in a aisles of your local large box flophouse or. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
Claus and Emmanuelle talked about the flophouse in Schwabing, where they met as roommates, and the girls they picked up at the dance halls. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest] Reference
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