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madhouse

Noun

mad=house

WORDNET DICTIONARY

madhouse(n = noun.artifact) bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, 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

madhouse, n.

An house or institution where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam; -- usually used in a deprecatory sense. [1913 Webster]
A chaotic, raucus or highly disordered situation. [PJC]

madhouse, n.
1 archaic or colloq. a mental home or hospital.
2 colloq. a scene of extreme confusion or uproar.

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