flophouse 

Any house/apartment/frat house/trailer/etc. which is used for individuals to crash (sleep, chill, hang out, lurk, etc.) for a period of time. In order to "crash", one must not actually live there (e.g. have their name on the lease, own said flophouse, etc.). Flophouses are typically used by college students, drug addicts, transients, vagrants, or other unsavory characters.

A flophouse may also be the home owned by the parents of a college student, who after being away at college, wishes to live as if he/she is still at college (e.g. staying out all night, returning just to crash at mom and dad's house, then leaving again), rather than conforming to the pre-college rules.

Example #1
Dude: (Talking to someone passed out face first on the floor of his college apartment) Hey man, who the hell are you? What do you think this is, a flophouse??

Bro: Sorry dude, I must have passed out for a minute.

Example #2
Mom: Where have you BEEN for the last three days? You come home just to sleep?? What do you think this is, a flophouse??!!

Son: What's your problem? I'm an adult now!

flophouse by J3553 November 21, 2007

flophouse 

A run-down boarding house for bums, hobos, and other transients. Not used anymore.

"Get those street-Arabs out of my shop and into the flop-house where they belong!"

Angry shopkeep, c. 1890

flophouse by JakeStar August 9, 2005

flophouse 

Another word for "whorehouse."

Sally works at the flophouse to make ends meet financially.

flophouse by Knarf August 30, 2005

flophouse 

A house in which one might flop.

Man 1:What the hell are you doing in my office!

Man 2:Uhhh, we rented this place out.

Man 1;I dont now about that, this aint no fucking flophouse you can just sleep in!

flophouse by brodiac January 19, 2006

Flophouse

Victorian rooming house by night or week. Hostel.

Modern-day

Private for Profit and completely illegal shelter. Usually a converted private home where tennants share a room with several other tennants on individual shared room accommodations.

Check out kijiji.ca GTA or Oshawa for rooms to rent 400-600$ per month.

You will find bait and switch where list price not available other room too expensive, however, last 3 share a room and your rent is...

Flophouse is a for profit illegal shelter with shared shelters accommodations in private homes, usually to pay off high mortgages.

Flophouse by Modern Women December 20, 2025

Filipino Flophouse 

A Filipino Flophouse is essentially a "Dry-docked upper-decker". The act involves turning off the water source of a toilet, flushing the toilet to render it dry in the tank and bowl and then depositing ones excrement in the tank portion of the toilet.

"I was at some assholes house party, he was being a total prick , so I left him the the ole' Filipino Flophouse!"

Filipino Flophouse by ACEE October 20, 2012

flop house 

normally it is an apartment where many drug abusers stay to sleep and abuse drugs. Some of these people pay rent, while others are unemployed and do nothing with their lives except party and abuse drugs.

nah man, this is a flop house

flop house by valoem July 16, 2008