1. cheap lodging houses or hotels that provide basic accommodation, typically for transient or homeless people
Usage: informal; plural of flophouse

Examples

• The city’s downtown area had several flophouses that provided shelter for the homeless.
• During the Great Depression, many unemployed workers stayed in flophouses.
• Social workers visited the flophouses to offer assistance to residents.
• The old flophouses were eventually demolished to make way for new development.
• He spent his last few dollars on a bed in one of the cheapest flophouses in town.
• The documentary explored life in urban flophouses during the 1930s.