: She will no longer take her dates to fleabag hotels. noun. A bed; mattress; bunk or hammock (1839+) An inferior racehorse (1950s+ Horse-racing) cheap and wretched hotel or rooming house; flop, flophouse: my last French hotel of the war: a fleabag two rooms wide/ He has transformed the motel from the old wayside fleabag into the most popular home away from home (late 1820s+) Any cheap, dirty, or ramshackle public place: unveiled at an owl show in a Forty-second Street flea bag (1950s+)