The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word FLEAPIT
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result FLEAPIT
- Life apt to be nasty in dingy, dirty building
- Felt sad about a good cinema that’s shabby …
- Bound to enter convenient old cinema
- Skip found in suitable dump
- Pale, shuddering, overcome by convulsion in infested locale
- Appropriate gathering bound for bughouse
- Bound to don suit somewhere shabby
- Jump into well — or dive?
- Be agitated about the ultimate in violence and sex in seedy cinema
- Jump into well – or dive?
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The straight part
We know that "dump" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dump = fleapit.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does FLEAPIT mean?
FLEAPIT noun- A dilapidated building, stereotypically hosting a low-grade cinema.