fun house

American  

noun

1. (in an amusement park) a building that is specially constructed and has devices for surprising and amusing patrons walking through.

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Etymology

Origin of fun house

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

In less than three hours, Dr. Halloween and his crew of eight will transform the broad front yard of this Fillmore Street home into a riotous Halloween fun house.

From Los Angeles Times

Get lost in the Santa Monica Pier’s trippy fun house.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s even harder to make one out of a dead body that went on exhibition at traveling carnivals and freak shows before ending up on display in a Long Beach fun house, where the mummified remains were accidentally discovered by a prop man while working on an episode of “The Six Million Dollar Man” in 1976.

From Los Angeles Times

Then there is Pham overcoming keratoconus, described to reporter Scott Miller by Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler this way: “Imagine your car windshield bulging out and getting all those distortions. Keratoconus can be like being in a fun house, but it’s not a lot of fun.”

From Los Angeles Times

These two giants of New York’s performance avant-garde have a good deal of history in common, but what distinguished Foreman’s work — and what I am so grateful to have experienced regularly in the 1990s and early 2000s — was the exploratory consciousness playfully probing the fun house of sentient existence.

From Los Angeles Times