Definitions for flophouses

flophouses flop·house

Spelling: [flop-hous]
IPA: /ˈflɒpˌhaʊs/

Flophouses is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 368 anagrams from letters in flophouses (efhloopssu).

Definitions for flophouses

noun

  1. a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.

Origin of flophouses

First recorded in 1890-95; flop + house

Examples for flophouses

They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake.

In his hand is a Bloody Mary, and his eyelids hang down his face like two broken blinds in a flophouse.

The walls were paper-thin, and he could hear all comings-and-goings at his end of the flophouse.

The theater job proves temporary, and after weeks of couch surfing McClear finds a bed at a flophouse called the Malibu Hotel.

Word Value for flophouses
Scrable

0

Words with friends

19

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