flophouse

noun

1. (US, slang)A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.

   “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).”

   “We even visited some drunken seamen in a flophouse on Mission Street that she knew; they offered us whisky.”

   “He was born out back of a twopenny flophouse in what the wags called “The Holy Land” […].”

verb

1. (intransitive)To stay in a flophouse.

   “August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana.”

   “I kept going nowhere, bummed the country, boxcar'd it, breadlined it, flophoused it, that cruddy dying by inches in jungles when, Christ-o, outa the knocked-out black and blue I'm told I gotta go to war, gotta fight for freedom.”

   “For old time's sake we plan to flophouse with you over the parturient period.”