fun house

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of fun house¹

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.

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

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With that premise proved spectacularly false, all that’s left is this graying generation of liberal influencers, propping up a fun house–mirror incarnation of the former Twitter, like a nostalgia tour for curdled boomers.

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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.

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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.”

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