fleabag
See also: flea bag
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Noun
editfleabag (plural fleabags)
- (slang) A bed or sleeping bag.
- (slang) A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment.
- 1999, Stephen King, “1408”, in Everything's Eventual, published 2002:
- While Mike was still in the hospital, a man named Olin—the manager of the goddamned hotel, if you please—came and asked Sam Farrell if he could listen to that tape. Farrell said no, he couldn't; what Olin could do was take himself on out of the agent's office at a rapid hike and thank God all the way back to the fleabag where he worked that Mike Enslin had decided not to sue either the hotel or Olin for negligence.
- (slang) An unkempt mammal.
- He's become a real fleabag recently. Time for a bath!
- (slang) A mammal whom the speaker dislikes.
- Get out of the way you fleabag!
Translations
editbed or sleeping bag
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place of shabby lodging
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unkempt mammal
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mammal whom the speaker dislikes
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