Meaning of flea pit | Babel Free

Definitions

A dilapidated building, stereotypically hosting a low-grade cinema.

colloquial

Examples

“The Upland Cinema ("The Flea Pit") stood on the corner of The Grove, the street where he had been born.”

“The Regal is no longer there, but, when I was eight, nine, and ten it was a flea pit down beside the harbor.”

“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 . . .”

“The term flea pit was not justified as the cinema turned out to be clean and well maintained.”

CEFR level