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  • noun Plural form of fleapit.

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Examples

  • The new Ginger Hotel near New Delhi railway station is a useful alternative to Par Ganj fleapits.

    10 of the best hotels in India 2011

  • If – as Adonis Kyrou contended – “the modern marvelous is popular, and the best and most exciting films are, beginning with Méliès and Fantômas, the films shown in local fleapits” – the contemporary marvelous is shown in video games and on MTV.

    January « 2008 « Jahsonic 2008

  • If – as Adonis Kyrou contended – “the modern marvelous is popular, and the best and most exciting films are, beginning with Méliès and Fantômas, the films shown in local fleapits” – the contemporary marvelous is shown in video games and on MTV.

    Ode to MTV and the contemporary grotesque « Jahsonic 2008

  • Arriving out of the dark like a closed fist full of muscular, hairy fingers, EXPLOITATION EXPLOSION is a collection of movie trailers from the halcyon (I think that's what I was on) days of exploitation fare and the heyday of the grindhouse (so-named for these fleapits' origins as burlesque houses, where strippers bumped and grinded their wares for the edification of working stiffs, wage slaves and college boys alike).

    Acey deucey Arbogast 2008

  • If – as Adonis Kyrou contended – “the modern marvelous is popular, and the best and most exciting films are, beginning with Méliès and Fantômas, the films shown in local fleapits” – the contemporary marvelous is shown in video games and on MTV.

    27 « January « 2008 « Jahsonic 2008

  • Even here, Mr. Clooney's deft direction achieves a hilariously cartoonish irony by contrasting Mr. Barris 'thwarted high-school passes in fleapits-of-passion movie houses full of furiously necking couples, and his frantic catching-up period in adulthood, when he and his girlfriend are the only neckers in a theater full of people concentrating on the movie on the screen.

    Take a Bow, George Clooney: Who Knew You Could Direct? 2003

  • The studio soon became a factory line for the nation's fleapits.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012

  • "Not even the fleapits of the 1970s showing Mary Millington double bills were quite as dank and chilly as this," writes Geoffrey MacNab in the Independent.

    Film | guardian.co.uk Adam Gabbatt 2010

  • Otherwise, you can just choose the fleapits located at the north tip of Gardiner St. If you are willing to experience a little of taxi trauma or the public transport, accommodations on the north part of the city would be more reasonable for your funds.

    Ireland Travel Guide JD 2010

  • Our table, all the way in the back of one of the big ballrooms of Caesar's Palace, featured myself (left), who had been feeding Dave, for research purposes, porn that Premiere and I had purchased straight from the fleapits of 8th Ave. all summer (his Midwest residence at the time had very little comfortable access to adult entertainment); my friend Evan Wright

    In The Company Of Glenn 2009

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