tumbledown

tum·ble·down

ready to tumble down; dilapidated

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tumbledown

adjective

Being in such bad repair as to seem in danger of collapsing; very dilapidated or rickety: a tumbledown shack.

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Adjective

(comparative more tumbledown, superlative most tumbledown)

in disrepair; poorly maintained
They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods.

Origin

tumble +"Ž down

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Our favourite walk was to Keller's Landing, an old tumbledown lumber-wharf on the Tennessee River, used during the Civil War to land soldiers.

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