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• Shabby theatre bound to appear in correspondence
• Shabby old cinema
• (British) an old shabby movie theater
• Run-down theater
• Shabby cinema or theatre, informally
• Surreptitiously tape most of film in old cinema

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

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

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 ...