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What does down-at-heel mean?

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Adjective
  1. attributive form of down at heel
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The rattling, down-at-heel, overcrowded buildings pleased me better than any grassy quad or lancet window.
Take Sasha and Lena, a young couple living in a typically down-at-heel housing estate on the outskirts of Moscow.
A bunch of largely down-at-heel passengers, who had got off with us, searched for a lift that was working.
Had I gone at 17 I have no doubt I would have been staying in a down-at-heel guest house.
If that conjures up an image of a rather down-at-heel East End hall, then think again.
Craig and Craig is a bold building both inside and out forging a new initiative in what is essentially a shabby and down-at-heel area.

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