Which is a generic sailor's term for staying in a place that rents beds.
"Hey, Joe! You fleabagging it?"
"Yeah."
"Which one?"
"Waldorf Astoria for 6 grand a night! Company's payin' for it!"
"What about you, Larry? You fleabaggin' it?"
"Yeah. Spent last night in a hot sheet joint that rented for two bucks an hour."
In short, any hotel, motel, hostel, Air BNB or what have you is referred to by sailors as a fleabag. If they rent a bed they are, in Sailorese, a fleabag.
I recently said to someone that I was going to grab a fleabag and the great misunderstanding started.
The person that came charging in raised holy hell and set me up in a pretty good hotel. I had to listen to how I was going to get myself a fleabag and so on and so forh and what a great place I was staying in.
Being the sailor I am, I thanked them for setting me up in a pretty good fleabag.
On the other hand, I have to take a certain amount of responsibility for them being pissed off. I should have known that I was speaking another language to them.
If this ever happens again I will start my conversation off with "Thank you, June. You certainly picked me a nice hotel to stay. How are Wally and the Beav doing?"
Either that or I will start answering them in French. You want a foreign language? I'll give you one.
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