doss house BrE , also: dosshouse BrE
flophouse AmE

Went to Housing and was offered a room in a doss house.

"Well, at least I got enough for the doss house.

It begins after spending the night at a doss house where he has taken pictures for a book of art photos.

Better sleep the night in a hotel room or better yet, a doss house.

"My men have scoured every cheap hotel and doss house.

"I've got to have enough for my own doss house tonight," she muttered, digging out a few coins.

The two women had been friends, often sharing a room in one of the area's hundreds of doss houses.

Go out and play for cigarette ends with the habitués of your doss house."

If she made it all the way back to her doss house with the blasted Hungarian, they'd never have a chance at her!

What do you think- this is, a doss house?'

I believe we should go to the doss houses along Dorset Street, listen to what the women are saying."

"Try the doss house," Aineko suggests from the shelter of her shoulder bag.

It was a working-man's tenement, not a doss house where the homeless flopped for the night.

This place made the doss house in Camden look like Claridge's.

Emergency doss houses for the homeless.

Not a public doss house.'

I assumed these things wir only found in France, but this doss house hud one.

Maybrick waited silently across the street, leaning one shoulder against the brick wall of a doss house opposite the pub.

- This isnae a doss house, Terry!

Doss House (1933)

A man in an Isleworth doss house, who was in Reading that day, was suspected, but later released.

We'll go to Catharine's doss house," Dominica decided.

She had quarreled with the man she lived with, had been seen in a doss house, admitted to a friend that she needed money.

Past Flower and Dean, Lachley took them into a narrow alleyway between ramshackle doss houses.

Bill, a co-worker and management member, takes a more humorous view "It was a doss house - but if you sit there now you get a cold bum!"

The place is now only slightly better than a flophouse.

You don't have to go back to any flophouse tonight.

"Having 30 people in a flophouse next door was not part of the arrangement.

But the trouble you started by grabbing me out of that flophouse has spread.

The flophouses, which opened around the turn of the last century, were at one time almost entirely populated by white men.

"It's not a flophouse," she said was the message to homeless people.

He remained on the Bowery for 10 days, living in flophouses.

He wanted to go to live with them in the Palace Flophouse.

On the second floor of the building was one of the city's largest flophouses.

The flophouse had around 15-20 different rooms, something different going on in all of them.

The living conditions here are worse than in the flophouses on the Bowery.

How dare some old wino turn a house of God into a flophouse?

The Essex was a dump, more of a flophouse than a hotel.

"Well, what's a hero of the Maine doing in this flophouse?"

It's a tricky latch, what you get in a flophouse.

This is not to suggest that men can't tell a grand hotel from a flophouse.

There are half the number of beds in flophouses as there were 10 years ago.

A congregation in church - a skinny flophouse - maybe even their defense headquarters.

On sultry summer mornings, the park smells like a flophouse.

"The bullet came from that boarded-up top window over there in what was a flophouse."

The flophouse had survived on cheap rates ever since his grandfather built it in 1919.

But in the film, the couple consummate their affair at a flophouse on the Italian front.

His day's work done, Charlie makes his way to a flophouse for a night's sleep.

Can you think of a better place than a flophouse for a man who doesn't want to be disturbed while he's busy with it?

A posh Parisian salon should not look like a flophouse.