flophouse

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈflɒphaʊs/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms. US,slang
    — In one of [Cincinnati’s] slum districts stands the Silver Moon, a “flop house” (i.e., a house where the occupants are “flopped” out of their hanging bunks by letting down the ropes).
动词 v.
  1. To stay in a flophouse. intransitive
    — August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana.

词形变化

flophouses plural flop-house alternative flophouses present,singular,third-person flophousing participle,present flophoused participle,past flophoused past flop-house alternative

词源

词源 1
From flop + house, originally hobo slang, presumably from slang flop (“lie down to sleep”).
词源 2
From flop + house, originally hobo slang, presumably from slang flop (“lie down to sleep”).
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