English Dictionary

flophouse

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈflɒphaʊs/

名詞

アメリカ英語 俗語

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

日本語の意味

安宿。低料金で利用でき、大人数が広い部屋で寝泊まりするための宿泊施設です。

After losing his job, he spent a month sleeping in a flophouse near the station.

職を失った後、彼は駅の近くの安宿で一か月間寝泊まりした。

意味（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).

flophouses （ plural ）