flophouseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• flop-house

語源

From flop +‎ house, originally hobo slang, presumably from slang flop (“lie down to sleep”).^[1]

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈflɒphaʊs/

名詞

flophouse (複数形 flophouses)

1. (US, slang) A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms. [from 20th c.]
   • 1904, McClure’s Magazine, November 1904:^[1]

     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).

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, OCLC 43419454:

     We even visited some drunken seamen in a flophouse on Mission Street that she knew; they offered us whisky.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 34:

     He was born out back of a twopenny flophouse in what the wags called “The Holy Land” […].

同意語

• doss-house
• flop

上位語

• house

関連する語

• lodging house
• workingmen's hotel

動詞

flophouse (三人称単数 現在形 flophouses, 現在分詞 flophousing, 過去形および過去分詞形 flophoused)

1. To stay in a flophouse.
   • 1941, James F. Waters, The Court of Missing Heirs, page 53:

     August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana.

   • 1960, Alan Kapelner, All the naked heroes: a novel, page 337:

     I kept going nowhere, bummed the country, boxcar'd it, breadlined it, flophoused it, that cruddy dying by inches in jungles when, Christ-o, outa the knocked-out black and blue I'm told I gotta go to war, gotta fight for freedom.

   • 1989, S. Prideaux, Fine Arts, page 202:

     For old time's sake we plan to flophouse with you over the parturient period.

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