fleabag
Americannoun
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a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.
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any shabby or low-grade public establishment.
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a worthless racehorse.
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a dog, especially one that is flea-ridden.
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a bed.
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a sleeping bag.
noun
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a dirty or unkempt person
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a cheap or dirty hotel
Etymology
Origin of fleabag
Example Sentences
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Gi-hun, meanwhile, is living like a pauper, holed up in an empty fleabag hotel he owns and refusing to spend any of the fortune he’d won on himself.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2024
Mr. Blake received an Emmy in 1975 for outstanding lead actor in “Baretta,” about a detective who lived a fleabag life and relied on clever disguises to solve crimes.
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023
Smith and Mapplethorpe weren’t rich, not yet, and they came to the Chelsea from the fleabag Allerton Hotel.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 2022
He was also based in a "fleabag office" in a rough part of town.
From BBC • May 28, 2019
Finn and me were living in a fleabag apartment in Kansas City.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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