flophouse

FREQ #48496

廉价的低级住所或旅馆, [俗]监狱

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UK /ˈflɒphaʊs/
AU

词形变化

flophouses 复数 flophouses flophoused flophouses 三单 flophousing flophousing 现在分词 flophoused 过去式 flophoused 过去分词

别名

flop-house

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.

    美国 俚语

    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).

v.
  1. 1.

    To stay in a flophouse.

    不及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

doss-house

上位词 2

lodging house rooming house

词源

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

来源：wiktionary