bughouse
Americannoun
adjective
noun
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Origin of bughouse
Example Sentences
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His sax player, Rocky Morales, told me in the men’s room, “I used to be in the bughouse, but I’m O.K. now.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2013
This is starting to seem less like a skillful game of chess and more like a madcap game of bughouse.
From Forbes ● Jan. 31, 2013
Yet above this book's McLuhanoid jargon and bughouse semantics, one challenging notion shimmers: the hope that the power of commercial television can be decentralized.
From Time Magazine Archive
To get a laugh from Venezuelan vertebrates in the neighborhood, Beebe and company put up a sign reading "LABORATORIO: MANICOMO," i.e., bughouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
You got a bughouse patient on your bands!
From The Machine by Sinclair, Upton
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