funny farms
funny farms is the plural of funny farm.
Meaning of funny farm
Noun
funny farm (plural funny farms)
- An insane asylum.
- Paddy the Duke was right. I had one more "tour of duty" to put in at the funny farm. They turned me loose a few days after he left, sometime in the winter months of 1959, but in a little more than a year's time I would be back at Avalon Valley; and I would be a very sick man.1968, Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes, page 117
- Synonyms:
- nuthouse, bedlam, bin, booby-hatch, booby house, bughouse, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, happy hotel, insane asylum
Questions about funny farms
- What is funny farms the plural of?
- Funny farms is the plural of funny farm.
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