Definition of Fleabag

1. Noun. A run-down hotel.

Generic synonyms: Hotel

Definition of Fleabag

1. Noun. (slang) A bed or sleeping bag. ¹

2. Noun. (slang) A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment. ¹

3. Noun. (slang) An unkempt mammal. ¹

4. Noun. (slang) A mammal whom the speaker dislikes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fleabag

1. an inferior hotel [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleabag

flea-bitten kidney
flea-borne typhus
flea-lice
flea-louse
flea-ridden
flea bag
flea bags
flea beetle
flea beetles
flea bite
flea circus
flea in one's ear
flea market
flea markets
flea pit
fleabag (current term)
fleabags
fleabane
fleabanes
fleabite
fleabites
fleabitten
fleaborne
fleahopper
fleahoppers
fleak
fleaker
fleakers
fleaking
flealike

Literary usage of Fleabag

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Marne--and After: A Companion Volume to "The Retreat from Mons," by Arthur Corbett-Smith (1917)
"It's old fleabag, you chaps," he cries, dancing round; "he's signalling for ... And fleabag, just to show that he's glad to be home again, and that it's a ..."

2. Days of a Soldier's Life by Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker (1894)
"... called Fontenay de Fleury, but I hope will find more time to come and look after me, and perhaps to take a decent rest in the spare fleabag on the upper ..."

3. WMD Machete by Mark Plimsoll (2006)
"At twenty two years of age, in a fleabag hotel in Guatemala, I met one of the last Princesses of Nicaragua's Mosquito Indians, but didn't believe her, ..."

4. The Green Curve by Ernest Dunlop Swinton (1914)
"He's in 'is fleabag all right. I 'eard 'im get in myself. 'Is 'at should be on a stick alongside, so you can't miss him." Fitten groaned again. ..."

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