nuthouse

/ ˈnʌtˌhaʊs /

noun

1. slang,  a mental hospital or asylum

Example Sentences

“Romeo and Juliet,” which had its North American premiere on Wednesday at the Ahmanson Theatre, combines the brooding sexual melancholy of “Spring Awakening” and the nuthouse authoritarianism of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

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“Plus, I was homeschooling my own four kids. It was a nuthouse.”

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But we need his voice of reason in this nuthouse of a White House.

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I don’t want to have too much time at the end for her to call the nuthouse or ask me how telling her makes me feel.

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Kelly wants to exit the nuthouse and he sees this as his best excuse, trumped-up though it is.

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