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tumbledown

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tum⋅ble-down

[tuhm-buhl-doun]
–adjective
dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.

Origin:
1810–20
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tum·ble·down   (tŭm'bəl-doun')   
adj.  Being in such bad repair as to seem in danger of collapsing; very dilapidated or rickety: a tumbledown shack.
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