bughouse
Americannoun
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bughouses
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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
Many a U. S. community knows the type: a great reader, self-taught and apt to be considered mildly bughouse; a man whose passionate hobby is universal history.
From Time Magazine Archive
All your common bughouse phrases make the shrinking highbrow tired.
From Rippling Rhymes by Mason, Walt
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