(US, slang) A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.
1904, McClure’s Magazine, November 1904:
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(intransitive) To stay in a flophouse.
August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana.
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