The narrator is Charlie Citrine, and his friend Humboldt has just died in a fleabag New York hotel.
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Charlie goes on the lam in a fleabag Montmartre hotel.
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They hurried past smoky taco stands and fleabag hotels.
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For that he has lost my respect and I will now lump him in with the other fleabag leftists on the Court.
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That night I slept fitfully in the fleabag hotel.
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I felt as though we were in a fleabag hotel.
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Then again, Shaw's Thailand fleabag cost $1 a night.
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My internal autoresponder conjured images of a rusting rattletrap and fleabag hotels in dodgy neighborhoods.
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A proud Arkansan, he's at his best in places other pens wouldn't touch, as in a biting 2003 travelogue on fleabag motels.
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A run-down hotel
A bed or sleeping bag; A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment; An unkempt mammal; A mammal whom the speaker dislikes