Green’s Dictionary of Slang

of a place, e.g. a lodging house, run-down, filthy.

1861

(con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor I 259/1: At some of the places characterised by my informant as ‘rackety,’ ‘queer,’ or ‘Life in London,’ the charge is as often 3d. as 4d.