adj
Freq #299370
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adj
dilapidated, ramshackle, or in such poor condition that collapse seems likely
Jim hid overnight in a tumble-down cooper's shop beside the river.
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Etymology
From the verb phrase tumble down. The adjective imagines a neglected building as ready to fall or already partly collapsed; the closed spelling tumbledown is now also common.