RUN-DOWN
ADJECTIVES
1675 ► RAMSHACKLED dilapidated, run-down, in a state of disrepair, rickety, tumbledown
1784 ► SHACKLING ramshackle, rickety, run-down → Amer. dial.
L18 ► SCALY sick, run-down → sl.
1843 ► SHACKLEY → SHACKLY ramshackle, rickety, run-down, tottering → Amer. dial.
1856 ► DOWN-AT-HEEL characterized by shabbiness, disrepair, neglect, or destitution; having a shabby or run-down appearance
1856 ► RATTY run-down, ramshackle, unkempt, shabby; untidy and in poor condition → US sl.
1857 ► RAMSHACKLY rickety, tumbledown, dilapidated, run-down, in a state of disrepair
1884 ► DOWN-AT-HEELED characterized by shabbiness, disrepair, neglect, or destitution; having a shabby or run-down appearance
1886 ► TACKEY → TACKY of poor quality, shoddy; run-down; cheap. common; in poor taste → Amer. sl.
1899 ► BUNGED UP beaten, bruised, injured; out of order, damaged, run-down → Amer. dial.
20C ► OES seedy, run-down, ‘under the weather’ → S. Afr. sl.
1905 ► RAMSHACKLETY dilapidated, in a state of disrepair, run-down → Amer. dial.
1905 ► SHACKELTY → SHACKLEDY → SHACKLETY dilapidated, run-down, ramshackle, rickety, shaky → Amer. dial.
1911 ► RAMSHACKELDY dilapidated, in a state of disrepair, run-down → Amer. dial.
1916 ► TORN DOWN run down, dilapidated → Amer. dial.
1930 ► SLEAZY of a thing: dirty, run-down, decayed → sl.
1941 ► RAMSHACK run-down, in disrepair → Amer. dial.
1960 ► OLD-ASS run-down, dilapidated → US sl.
1965 ► GRUNGY ugly, run-down or dilapidated → sl.
1965 ► TORE-UP rundown, damaged, out of order → Amer. dial.
1965 ► TORN-UP rundown, damaged, out of order → Amer. dial.
1966 ► RAGGLY run-down, dilapidated → Amer. dial.
1968 ► RAGGLY-ASS run-down, dilapidated → Amer. dial.
1980 ► BAGGED OUT without style, shabby, run-down → US sl.
1990 ► ASS-DRAGGING run-down, worn-out → US sl.
NOUNS
1966 ► LOW RENT a run-down establishment (Bk.)
1967 ► CABBAGETOWN the poor area of a town; any run-down urban area; a slum → sl.
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