He is now unemployed, and lives in a flophouse in Atlanta between a jail and a strip club.

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From the Chinese: chow-main, chop-suey, stir-fry, ketchup, flophouse, kowtow and tycoon.

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They lived in a Manhattan flophouse for months.

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So behind that sleek new Apple iPhone whatever-it-does application are a bunch of software developers crowded into a brick building that 100 years ago housed a meat warehouse, a button factory, or maybe a flophouse.

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