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flea pit en · NOUN

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1. (colloquial) A dilapidated building, stereotypically hosting a low-grade cinema.
   • The Regal is no longer there, but, when I was eight, nine, and ten it was a flea pit down beside the harbor. 1970, Colm Luibhéid, All the Green Gold: an Irish boyhood:
   • The Upland Cinema ("The Flea Pit") stood on the corner of The Grove, the street where he had been born. 1964, Dylan Thomas, The Doctor and the Devils:
   • The term flea pit was not justified as the cinema turned out to be clean and well maintained. 2004, Keith Spratley, Provincial Eye: The Short Stories:
   • I remember going to the pictures at the local flea pit and seeing Riders of Death Valley, a serial in which I avidly #followed the fortunes of my hero Jim . . . 1980, Mervyn Thompson, All My Lives:

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