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booby house

booby house noun: booby-hatch; lunatic asylum.

Noun

booby house (plural booby houses)

  1. (derogatory, slang) booby-hatch; lunatic asylum
    • As for taking the kinks out of weak backs, straightening them out and tightening them up around the waist, that's old stuff in all the booby houses where the keepers clap the patients in strait jackets.1929, International Molders' and Foundry Workers' Journal

Forms of booby house

pluralbooby houses

Questions about booby house

What does booby house mean?
Booby house means booby-hatch; lunatic asylum.
What part of speech is booby house?
Booby house is a noun.
What is the plural of booby house?
The plural of booby house is booby houses.

Words near booby house in the dictionary

  1. boobular
  2. Boobus Americanus
  3. booby
  4. booby hatch
  5. booby hatches
  6. booby house
  7. booby houses
  8. booby hut
  9. booby hutch
  10. booby hutches
  11. booby huts

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