bughouse

Etymology

bug + house

noun

  1. (US, slang) A flea-infested hotel, lodging-house etc.
  2. (US, slang) A prison.
  3. (US, slang) A hospital, especially a lunatic asylum.
  4. (South Africa, slang) A cheap and dirty cinema.

adj

  1. (US, slang) Crazy, insane.
    'Just what's up on this train? It seems bughouse to me.' 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 254
    Ewball, man, that is some bughouse talk. 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1127

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