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loony bin
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun loony bin has 1 sense
- loony bin(n = noun.artifact) bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit - pejorative terms for an insane asylum; Array is a kind of asylum, insane asylum, institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital
CIDE DICTIONARY
loony bin, n.
An institution for the confinement or treatment of insane persons, such as an insane asylum or the psychiatric ward of a hospital. [PJC]
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