APARTMENT
NOUNS
► MANSION a separate apartment, dwelling-place, or lodging in a large house or enclosure; chiefly plural → 1400 obs.
► BACHELOR HALL ► BACHELOR’S HALL apartments for bachelors → 1833
► TENEMENT an apartment → 1839 Amer. dial.
► DRUM an apartment, a flat, a house, a home, etc.; a place of business or residence → 1846 UK sl.
► LAYOUT an apartment, a house, or any place → M19 US sl.
► LATTIE ► LATTY an apartment or house → 1859 UK sl.
► SHACK an apartment, one’s home; a house → 1880 African-American sl.
► KIP an apartment or hotel room → 1883 Amer. sl., esp. among itinerants
► DIGS an apartment, house, room; lodgings → 1893 UK sl.
► THREE-DECKER a three-story dwelling with one apartment occupying each floor → 1899 Amer. dial.
► HOLE IN THE WALL a tiny, cramped apartment → L19 sl.
► FLATETTE a very small flat → 20C Aust.
► MIDGE-HOLE a very small apartment → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► 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 → 1910 US sl.
► WALK-UP an apartment on an upper floor that has to be reached by the stairs because no elevator exists → 1910 US sl.
► ELEVATOR APARTMENT an apartment in a building with an elevator → 1912 Amer. dial.
► RENT an apartment or house to rent → 1913 Amer. dial.
► COLD SLOUGH an apartment, house when nobody’s at home → 1934 sl. (Bk.)
► PAD an apartment, place, or house; a room, esp. a bedroom → 1938 sl.
► WALK-BACK an apartment at the rear of a block → 1940 African-American sl.
► WALK-DOWN a basement apartment → 1940 African-American sl.
► SKY-NEST an apartment on an upper floor of an apartment building → 1950 US sl.
► RAILROAD FLAT ► RAILROAD APARTMENT an apartment consisting of a series of narrow rooms arranged in line → 1956 Amer. dial.
► HUTCH an apartment, a room, a house → 1966 US sl.
► CAGE a depressing apartment or room → 1970 US homosexual sl.
► BACHELORETTE an apartment suitable for a bachelor girl → 1973
► BACHELOR PAD the apartment of a young, single, urbane, sophisticated man → 1976 US sl.
► LANDLORD HALO a notably dim light in the hallway of a slum apartment block → 1980 US sl.
► SHAG PAD an apartment or room where one can bring a casual sex partner; a nickname for a bachelor’s apartment → 1990 sl.
► VARICOSE-VEIN FLAT an apartment in poor maintenance → 1990 sl.
► RACK a room or apartment → 1993 US sl.
► TRIPLE-DECKER a three-story dwelling with one apartment occupying each floor → 1999 Amer. dial.
► ABANDOMINIUMS abandoned apartments used by drug addicts to take crack → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► PAD a place, house, or apartment → 1939 sl.
► REPENT PAD a bachelor’s apartment → 1944 African-American sl.
► STASH APARTMENT an apartment where drugs are hidden → 1992 US sl.
► WALK-BACK an apartment in the rear of a building → 1970 US sl.
► CHILL PAD an apartment or house → 2008 African-American sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► FLATTY a flat-mate → 20C
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