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flea-bag

flea-bag is the alternative form of fleabag.

Meaning of fleabag

Noun

fleabag (plural fleabags)

  1. (slang) A bed or sleeping bag.
  2. (slang) A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment.
    • ‘[E]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.’1973, Christina Stead, The Little Hotel, Text Classics, published 2016, page 184
  3. (slang) An unkempt mammal.
    • He's become a real fleabag recently. Time for a bath!
  4. (slang) A mammal whom the speaker dislikes.
    • Get out of the way, you fleabag!

Forms of flea-bag

pluralflea-bags

Questions about flea-bag

What is flea-bag the alternative form of?
Flea-bag is the alternative form of fleabag.

Words near flea-bag in the dictionary

  1. flea pit
  2. flea pits
  3. flea tree
  4. flea trees
  5. flea's eyebrows
  6. flea-bag
  7. flea-bags
  8. flea-bitten
  9. flea-brained
  10. flea-flicker
  11. flea-flickers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flea-bag (page history and authors); fleabag (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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