DLTa very cheaphotel where people can stay when they have very little money and nowhere to live 廉价旅馆SYN British English doss house
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flophouse• I was beat, but I couldn't risk a motel or even a flophouse.• I never met a client in a flophouse before, so I said I would.• Waittill the captain comes out and tells us that the phone number I gave him is a flophouse up in Portland?• One night I decided to try a flophouse, the only accommodation I could afford that night.• Arriving there, he moved from flophouse to flophouse because none of his fellowtenants could endure his hackingcough.• Graceland is there, already, centerpiece of 10 dozen doughnutshops and roadsideflophouses.• He is the same age I was during my night in the flophouse.