Tumble-down \Tum"ble-down`\, a. Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house. [Colloq.]
tumble-down adj : in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack" [syn: {bedraggled}, {broken-down}, {dilapidated}, {ramshackle}, {tatterdemalion}, {unsound}]