1. a cheap, run-down hotel or lodging place
Usage: informal
2. a mangy or flea-infested animal, especially a dog or cat
Usage: informal

Examples

• We had to stay in a fleabag motel because it was all we could afford.
• The old fleabag downtown charges twenty dollars a night.
• That fleabag of a cat keeps scratching itself.
• He rescued the fleabag from the street and nursed it back to health.
• The travelers avoided the fleabag hotels near the train station.
• Despite being a fleabag, the dog was surprisingly friendly.