broken-down valise
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken down, valise.
Example Sentences
- ""In the football business there are so many sleazy bums — broken-down valises, I call them — who don't have two quarters to rub together," Bloom said."
- "Adam Schiff: "Abe Mercer. Ten years ago, he was a broken-down valise. Bad divorce, partners suing him, ethics review. If Doc Gooden can rise from the dead, why not Abe Mercer?""
- "Sonny was just a dirty-looking old man, a broken-down old man. A broken-down valise. That's Charlie's words. That's what he'd call a washed-up wiseguy."
- "The Mafia and the FBI both considered Greg a relic, a washed-up has-been or, in the colorful language of the Mafia, a brokester, a broken-down valise."
- "Wedged into the rumble seat was my broken-down valise with everything I possessed in the world."
Etymology
Variant of busted valise.