Surreptitiously tape most of film in old cinema

• Shabby cinema or theatre, informally
• Shabby old cinema
• Life apt to be nasty in dingy, dirty building
• Shabby theatre bound to appear in correspondence
• (British) an old shabby movie theater
• Run-down theater

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an old shabby movie theater

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He is wincing in a 1940s fleapit auditorium where they are showing a crass adaptation of one of his books. ▪ I recall when Nancy Leadbetter and I stayed in a terrible fleapit of a room in Siena. ▪ Went to work in the Regal, some ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of flea pit English)