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flea·pit

 (flē′pĭt′)
n. Chiefly British Slang
A room or building, especially a movie theater, that is squalid or rundown.
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fleapit

(ˈfliːˌpɪt)
n
(Film) informal a shabby cinema or theatre
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flea•pit

(ˈfliˌpɪt)

n. Brit. Slang.
a run-down theater.
[1935–40]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.fleapit - an old shabby movie theater
movie house, movie theater, movie theatre, picture palace, cinema - a theater where films are shown
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
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Translations
Flohkino

fleapit

[ˈfliːpɪt] Ncine m de mala muerte
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fleapit

[ˈfliːˈpɪt] n (fam) → teatrucolo
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IT'S barely a mile up Hardman Street from what used to be the fleapit of Eric's to Liverpool's stately Philharmonic Hall.
But he doesn't deserve a horsewhipping over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian mum now behind bars in a Tehran fleapit. It occurs to me the Foreign Secretary couldn't have dreamed up the blunder of telling MPs that Nazanin was in Iran to teach journalism.
Forgotten amid all the controversy were Scott's parents, who never found out how long their son spent in Leisk's fleapit flat before he was strangled or whether he could've been saved if police had made immediate checks on known sex offenders.
When I was younger, I used to go to one in Bargoed, but we'd call it the 'fleapit'."
Amanda Hadingue is aspiring conman Iharev, who checks into a fleapit hotel with the aim of winning big from his fellow guests.
brianlee4@virginmedia.com RECALLING the Coronet Cinema in my book Cardiff Voices, I had this to say: "The Coronet in Woodville Road was the nearest fleapit or local cinema to where I lived.
ludlowhotel.com Riff Chelsea Back in the 1980s when Madonna stayed here, it was known as the Chelsea Star - and was a genuine New York fleapit. Now it's channelling an Eighties vibe in a more 21st century way with a performance space on the ground floor.
Initial investigations showed that the deep fleapit, filled with rain water, is used by the residents of the area in irrigating palm trees, farms, and animals there.
There was just a piano and a 1960s fleapit cinema-sized small screen.
On March 20 and 21, the cinema is screening The Smallest Show On Earth - the classic comedy from 1957 which stars Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna as a young couple who inherit his uncle's fleapit cinema.
He and a friend tentatively walked through the doors of Donnington gym, known locally as The Fleapit.