APARTMENT
NOUNS
1400 ► MANSION a separate apartment, dwelling-place, or lodging in a large house or enclosure; chiefly plural → obs.
1833 ► BACHELOR HALL → BACHELOR’S HALL apartments for bachelors
1839 ► TENEMENT an apartment → Amer. dial.
1846 ► DRUM an apartment, a flat, a house, a home, etc.; a place of business or residence → UK sl.
M19. ► LAYOUT an apartment, a house, or any place → US sl.
1859 ► LATTIE → LATTY an apartment or house → UK sl.
1880 ► SHACK an apartment, one’s home; a house → African-American sl.
1883 ► KIP an apartment or hotel room → Amer. sl., esp. among itinerants
1893 ► DIGS an apartment, house, room; lodgings → UK sl.
1899 ► THREE-DECKER a three-story dwelling with one apartment occupying each floor → Amer. dial.
L19.. ► HOLE IN THE WALL a tiny, cramped apartment → sl.
20C.. ► FLATETTE a very small flat → Aust.
1905 ► MIDGE-HOLE a very small apartment → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1910 ► COLDWATER WALK-UP an apartment on an upper floor that has to be reached by the stairs because no elevator exists, and there is no proper plumbing → US sl.
1910 ► WALK-UP an apartment on an upper floor that has to be reached by the stairs because no elevator exists US sl.
1912 ► ELEVATOR APARTMENT an apartment in a building with an elevator → Amer. dial.
1913 ► RENT an apartment or house to rent → Amer. dial.
1934 ► COLD SLOUGH an apartment, house when nobody’s at home → sl. (Bk.)
1938 ► PAD an apartment, place, or house; a room, esp. a bedroom → sl.
1940 ► WALK-BACK an apartment at the rear of a block → African-American sl.
1940 ► WALK-DOWN a basement apartment → African-American sl.
1950 ► SKY-NEST an apartment on an upper floor of an apartment building → US sl.
1956 ► RAILROAD FLAT → RAILROAD APARTMENT an apartment consisting of a series of narrow rooms arranged in line → Amer. dial.
1966 ► HUTCH an apartment, a room, a house → US sl.
1970 ► CAGE a depressing apartment or room US homosexual sl.
1973 ► BACHELORETTE an apartment suitable for a bachelor girl
1976 ► BACHELOR PAD the apartment of a young, single, urbane, sophisticated man → US sl.
1980 ► LANDLORD HALO a notably dim light in the hallway of a slum apartment block → US sl.
1990 ► SHAG PAD an apartment or room where one can bring a casual sex partner; a nickname for a bachelor’s apartment → sl.
1990 ► VARICOSE-VEIN FLAT an apartment in poor maintenance → sl.
1993 ► RACK a room or apartment → US sl.
1999 ► TRIPLE-DECKER a three-story dwelling with one apartment occupying each floor → Amer. dial.
2006 ► ABANDOMINIUMS abandoned apartments used by drug addicts to take crack → US sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
20C.. ► FLATTY a flat-mate
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