The air of the city's cheapest flophouse was thick with the smells of harsh antiseptic and unwashed bodies.
Quarters in flophouses are typically very small, and may resemble office cubicles more than a regular room in a hotel or apartment building.
It was essentially a flophouse in dilapidated condition, but they set to work repairing and upgrading it.
The hotel was known as a flophouse which provided cheap accommodation to many impoverished and elderly people.
American flophouses date at least to the 19th century, but the term flophouse itself is only attested from 1904, originating in hobo slang.
The slang term flophouse is roughly the equivalent of common lodging-houses.
Frantic to leave town and desperately needing to sleep, the penniless man gives the check as security for a 10 cent bed in a flophouse.
At that time, the area was known for its hobo jungles and flophouses.
