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noun Slang.

a psychiatric hospital.

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Origin of funny farm

First recorded in 1960–65; funny1 in the sense “strange, peculiar, odd” and farm in the sense “a place that serves a specified type of client”

Words nearby funny farm

funnies, funny, funny bone, funny book, funny business, funny farm, funnyman, funny money, funny paper, fun run, funster
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Words related to funny farm

bedlam, booby hatch, loony bin, madhouse, mental hospital, snake pit, bughouse, lunatic asylum, mental home, nuthouse, padded cell, psychiatric hospital, rubber room, sanatorium, sanitarium

British Dictionary definitions for funny farm

funny farm

noun

facetious a mental institution
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