fleabag

Mr. Blake received an Emmy in 1975 for outstanding lead actor in “Baretta,” about a detective who lived a fleabag life and relied on clever disguises to solve crimes.

The Berkeley Inn, known to Geyer’s generation as a fleabag hotel, once stood on the parcel of land.

A couple of the fleabags closed not long after.

He was also based in a "fleabag office" in a rough part of town.

They were associated with noir midcentury urban life, with fleabag hotels and S.R.O.s, with single men leading marginal, vaguely seedy lives.