Bughouse
an insane asylum.
insane; crazy.
Historical Examples
Owen Clancy’s Happy Trail Burt L. Standish
William Adolphus Turnpike William Banks
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) Elbert Hubbard
Tramping with Tramps Josiah Flynt
Tramping with Tramps Josiah Flynt
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist Alexander Berkman
Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Alice B. Emerson
The Triumph of John Kars Ridgwell Cullum
Tramping with Tramps Josiah Flynt
Heart of the West O. Henry
noun
a mental hospital or asylum
adjective
insane; crazy
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