A budget place to stay doesn't have to mean a fleapit in a grotty part of town.
From the guardian.co.uk
I arrived in Lisbon and read all night in a fleapit hotel.
From the guardian.co.uk
Avoiding a big name early on clearly helps if you're a wildcard with a three-night booking at a nearby fleapit.
From the guardian.co.uk
Tariq Ali fired off about the miners'strike and made Salman Rushdie cross when he called the Ritzy a fleapit.
From the guardian.co.uk
It takes us to Calexico, a sun-bleached crossroads where a fleapit theatre plays Sergio Leone and John Ford westerns on permanent loop.
From the nzherald.co.nz
She took him, sometimes four days a week, to the Rock Cinema in Cudworth, which was perhaps the strangest fleapit in all England.
From the independent.co.uk
Ease multiplex ennui with this cross-capital series of cult film screenings in honour of long-defunct but fondly remembered fleapit Scala.
From the independent.co.uk
One evening, in a rundown hotel in the desert, a real fleapit on the road between Tawurga and Hun, I heard about the genesis of Don's current Saharan obsession.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Late in the time of us old men who began our lives seeing a couple of double bills a week at the local fleapit, a new way to deliver the same blast has taken over.
From the theatlantic.com
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An old shabby movie theater
Alternative spelling of flea pit
The cinema, movie house. 2. any dirty, shabby, ill-kept house or dwelling.