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fleabag

[ flee-bag ]

noun

Slang.
  1. a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.
  2. any shabby or low-grade public establishment.
  3. a worthless racehorse.
  4. a dog, especially one that is flea-ridden.
  5. a bed.


fleabag

/ ˈڱːˌæɡ /

noun

  1. a dirty or unkempt person
  2. a cheap or dirty hotel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fleabag1

First recorded in 1825–35; flea + bag
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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.

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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.

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The Berkeley Inn, known to Geyer’s generation as a fleabag hotel, once stood on the parcel of land.

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A couple of the fleabags closed not long after.

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He was also based in a "fleabag office" in a rough part of town.

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