fleabag
Definition
- Noun:
- A run-down, dirty, or shabby hotel, hostel, or similar establishment: The word "fleabag" is a slang term that primarily refers to a cheap, unclean, and low-quality place of lodging, often infested with pests like fleas. It strongly implies a lack of basic comfort and hygiene.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- We had to stay in a real fleabag because it was the only place we could afford.
- The detective found the suspect hiding out in a downtown fleabag.
- I wouldn't recommend that hotel; it's a complete fleabag.
Advanced Usage
- As a colorful pejorative: While its core meaning is a run-down hotel, "fleabag" can be used more broadly as a humorous or scornful insult for any very shabby, dirty, or disreputable place or thing.
- His apartment is a total fleabag, but the rent is cheap.
- That old car is a real fleabag on wheels.
Variants and Related Words
- Fleabitten (adj): Literally bitten by fleas; figuratively, shabby, worn-out, or dilapidated.
- They bought a fleabitten old sofa at the thrift store.
Synonyms
- Dive: A disreputable, often cheap, bar or establishment.
- Flophouse: A very cheap hotel or rooming house.
- Hovel: A small, squalid, unpleasant dwelling.
- Rathole: A filthy, cramped, or wretched place.
Antonyms
- Luxury hotel
- Five-star hotel
- Resort
Related Idioms and Phrases
- No idiom directly uses "fleabag", but the word itself functions as a vivid metaphorical idiom, comparing a place to a bag infested with fleas to convey its poor quality.
Noun
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a run-down hotel
