nut house
or nut·house
- a mental hospital; insane asylum.
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Origin of nut house
First recorded in 1900–05
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Contemporary Examples of nuthouse
So Peggy calls 911 and gets the loony copywriter sent off to the nuthouse.
Mad Men’s ‘The Runaways’: Three-Way Sex and Self-Mutilation in the Craziest Episode YetMarlow Stern
May 12, 2014
Historical Examples of nuthouse
I won't say I like this place—your world or the nuthouse entrance to it.
Shock TreatmentStanley Mullen
nuthouse
- slang a mental hospital or asylum
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