doss house
Vagrant shelter beds
A doss house is a cheap lodging house offering basic sleeping accommodations, typically for homeless or transient people.
The term is primarily British: He spent the night in a doss house near the docks.
American equivalents include flophouse and flop.
The accommodations are minimal—often just a bed or mat in a shared room.
- innLodging for wayfarers
- skid rowImpoverished urban district
- lodgeTemporary woodland dwelling
- shelterProtected place or structure
- homeless shelterTemporary housing for vagrants
dormitory · destitution · accommodation · homelessness · vagrancy · Dickensian · flophouse · workhouse · Salvation Army · asylum · almshouse · down-and-out · dwelling · hostel · night shelter · slum · breadline · poverty
doss houseluxury hotel
Premium overnight accommodation
five-star hotel · palace · penthouse suite · presidential suite · Ritz
doss housepermanent home
Lasting place of residence
family home · estate · homestead · ancestral home · forever home
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