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booby houses

booby houses is the plural of booby house.

Meaning of booby house

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

Questions about booby houses

What is booby houses the plural of?
Booby houses is the plural of booby house.

Words near booby houses in the dictionary

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

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