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fleabag noun- a low-cost, run-down motel, room, boarding house or apartment US, 1924
- The five bucks they ask, plus three dollars for a room in a handy flea-bag, should be reported to the Better Business Bureau[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 32, 1951
- One flea bag in the West Forties, the Hotel Minnetonka, left a particularly lurid shadow in my memory. — Alexander King, Mine Enemy Grows Older, p. 25, 1958
- [H]e fled after he saw, he swore, a red ribbon tied across the open commode, fled to a Fifth Street fleabag. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 206, 1961
- “There’s two more,” Morty admitted mournfully, “but they’re complete flea bags, Sid!” — Terry Southern, Blue Movie, p. 66, 1970
- They were working in the room next to his in that fucking fleabag hotel and that hole in the wall came from a slug[.] — Mickey Spillane, Last Cop Out, p. 96, 1975
- Two of them dirty niggers carried her out to the back door of the flea bag across the street. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Long White Con, p. 164, 1977
- Some damn tribe of withered old bitches doesn’t want us to terminate that fleabag hotel. All because Glenn Miller and his band once took a shit there. — Heathers, 1988
- a person dressed in old or dirty clothes; a smelly person UK
- — Chris Lewis, The Dictionary of Playground Slang, p. 91, 2003
- a drug user CANADA
- — Marcel Danesi, Cool: The Signs and Meanings of Adolescence, p. 58, 1994
- a dishonest, disreputable carnival US
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 35, 1980
- an utterly destitute person US
- The older prostitute who continues working into her sixties and sev-enties may be reduced to seeking clients on the local Skid Row and end up as a “flea bag.” — Charles Winick, The Lively Commerce, p. 74, 1971
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