Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A room or building, especially a movie theater, that is squalid or rundown.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of flea pit.

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  • noun an old shabby movie theater

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Examples

  • That’s right: no longer cadging drinks or wrestling with pimps in fleapit Manhattan hotel rooms, the arch-diagnostician of adult bullshit is currently trick-or-treating and going out for ice cream with his mother.

    Revenge of the Wimps 2010

  • That’s right: no longer cadging drinks or wrestling with pimps in fleapit Manhattan hotel rooms, the arch-diagnostician of adult bullshit is currently trick-or-treating and going out for ice cream with his mother.

    Revenge of the Wimps 2010

  • That’s right: no longer cadging drinks or wrestling with pimps in fleapit Manhattan hotel rooms, the arch-diagnostician of adult bullshit is currently trick-or-treating and going out for ice cream with his mother.

    Revenge of the Wimps 2010

  • That’s right: no longer cadging drinks or wrestling with pimps in fleapit Manhattan hotel rooms, the arch-diagnostician of adult bullshit is currently trick-or-treating and going out for ice cream with his mother.

    Revenge of the Wimps 2010

  • Last year, she and Simon moved out of their rented 'fleapit' into a pretty cottage, having sold their old house.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • During the filming of The Apprentice in September 2007, she and her son were living in a rented 'fleapit', their only furniture two £9.99 blow-up mattresses in place of beds.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • One of the lingering charms of the Left Bank of Paris in the 21st century is that, although much of the area has long since surrendered to chain stores and fast-food joints, the streets between Boulevard Saint-Michel and rue Mouffetard are still dotted with fleapit cinemas with names such as L'Accattone, Studio Galande and Le Champo.

    Claire Denis: 'For me, film-making is a journey into the impossible' 2010

  • Our story ends in faded downtowns across America, bleak landscapes littered with shuttered fleapit theaters bearing names such as the Alexandria, the Luxor, the Isis, and the Nile.

    Watch Like an Egyptian Handy, Bruce 2008

  • Remember that summer I met you when you were washing dishes at that fleapit Mexican place in San Francisco?

    Red Hot Reunion Bella Andre 2007

  • Aquillius then supplied the address where the Seven Sights group were staying, in some fleapit called the Helios.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

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