1. (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.

2. (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.

battered beat-up beaten up broken-down crumbling decrepit derelict dilapidated doddering flimsy groggy in disrepair in ruins insubstantial jerry-built neglected ricketish rickety rocky ruined ruinous run-down shaky slummy spidery spindly teetering teetery tottering tottery tumbledown unstable unsteady unsubstantial wobbly