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English
Etymology
From flea + bag.
Pronunciation
Noun
fleabag (plural fleabags)
- (slang) A bed or sleeping bag.
- (slang) A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment.
1973, Christina Stead, The Little Hotel, Text Classics, published 2016, page 184:‘veryone knows that Charlie […] takes little girls up to a room in that horrible flea-bag; but he's a respectable man just the same.’
1999, Stephen King, “1408”, in Everything's Eventual, published 2002:hat 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
mammal whom the speaker dislikes