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Run-down joint
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fleabag
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Word definitions for fleabag in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The hotel was conveniently located, but the nights in that fleabag almost did me in.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context slang English) A bed or sleeping bag. 2 (context slang English) A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment. 3 (context slang English) An unkempt mammal. 4 (context slang English) A mammal whom the speaker ...
Usage examples of fleabag.
He was living in a fleabag on Forty-seventh when he ran into Jocko in the bar that night.
What would poor, dead Menti say if Countess de Grassi stay in fleabag?
The forest lodge, the suite of mauve rooms, the fleabag above the hockshop, the borrowed apartmentall too personal, the unrecurring moment.
Finally he says he will take her to his own home and let her sleep there while he is deciding what is to be done about her, so Sorrowful takes Marky in his arms and lugs her over to a fleabag in West Forty-ninth Street where he has a room for many years, and afterward a bellhop tells me Sorrowful sits up all night watching her while she is sleeping.
Truck yards, warehouses, and machine shops shared the area with twenty-four hour bail bondsmen, crumbling fleabags, and dusty stretches of vacant lot.