fleabag

IPA: fɫˈibæg

(slang) A bed or sleeping bag.
(slang) A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment.
(slang) An unkempt mammal.
(slang) A mammal whom the speaker dislikes.

Examples of "fleabag" in Sentences

What hotel would rent me a room, even some of the fleabag ones I knew were out there?
But worst of all, she is forced to move back into the fleabag co-op boardinghouse where she lived when she was a student at the University of Texas.
-- No Country for Old Men and In the Valley of Elah shared several cast members and also the fact that at least half of both movies were set in fleabag motels.
In 1969, he said, he had dinner with Lillian Hellman at the Carlyle, and she chastised him for staying at a "fleabag" hotel in New York and told him to check in.
It was the worst kind of fleabag, consisting of twelve units in six free-standing buildings of cinder block from which most of the paint had long ago flaked away.
Other realities of the job, he said, were "being broke, spending massive amounts of time staying in fleabag hotels, and there are aspects of the writing that are just data entry."
(Read The Observer's extensive coverage here.) "Save The Hotel" activist Gregory Jones once took issue with my use of the term "fleabag" to describe the dowdy would-be landmark on Seventh Avenue.
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.