bughouse

bughouse (1) {n.}, {slang}

An insane asylum.

They took Joe to the bughouse.

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[bughouse] (2) {adj.}, {slang} Crazy, insane. * /Joe's gone bughouse./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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