fleabag

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More recently, in Canada at least, it is associated with cheap and dirty accommodation (such as fleabag motels and run-down rooming), as well as with prostitution and other disreputable or illegal activities.

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  1. noun Informal A seedy, rundown hotel or other lodging place.
  2. noun Informal An animal considered to be inferior or in poor condition.

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  • I say somewhat because Rose, the high school cheerleader who once dated Steve Zahn's football captain, now married with children and meeting for quickies in some fleabag called, I kid you not, the Crossroads Motel, is at times forced to behave naïvely just to help grease the gears of Sunshine Cleaning's rote trajectories of self discovery. —  Vue Weekly
  • Now even more readers can follow Gainsbourg's story of an old sleazeball who runs over a teenage girl with his Rolls-Royce, deflowers her at a fleabag hotel, and later foresees her plane crashing while she's en route from Paris to London. —  AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
  • At the same time, Bobby (Elijah Trichon), a 17-year-old runaway who has been repeatedly raped by his older brother, offers to take care of Papo and moves in with him in his fleabag hotel room. —  BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
  • More recently, in Canada at least, it is associated with cheap and dirty accommodation (such as fleabag motels and run-down rooming), as well as with prostitution and other disreputable or illegal activities. —  The Big Apple
  • For many MBAs, spring break is more than a chance to share a fleabag motel room with five friends in Daytona-it's an educational investment, an opportunity to visit another country and learn something about the global economy that can't be taught in a classroom. —  BusinessWeek.com --
 

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