bughouse

Examples

• All

• I bought it for her to wear when she got out of the bughouse.

  Eileen (2023)

• Twenty years in the bughouse is paying the price, girly.

  Psycho III (1986)

• Just because I went bughouse doesn't mean you will.

  Proof (2005)

• They'll probably throw you into that bughouse with your sister.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Johann Schmidt belongs in a bughouse.

  Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

• "In my day we'd have used you for a toothpick." "In my day we'd have stuck you in the bughouse."

  Fiction book (1990)

• I don't want to go back to the bughouse! All I could do was ignore them as best I could; if I could ignore the echoes, I told myself, I could ignore anything.

  Fiction book (1997)

• In addition to the cute apartments that you've scouted for me in New York, have you by any chance devoted some of your considerable energies towards scouting out another type of living facility for your bughouse little sister?

  Proof (2005)

• After spending time in the bughouse, he finally felt ready to reintegrate into society.

• She was relieved when her friend was released from the bughouse and could return home.

Synonyms

M

madhouse

vsbughouse

• Offensive

26 8.0

A very noisy, chaotic place often used to describe a mental hospital or busy shop

refers only to a mental institution rather than chaotic situations

N

nuthouse

vsbughouse

• Offensive

13 9.9

A rude informal word for a hospital for people with mental illness

is slang but not marked as particularly offensive

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