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bughouse

[buhg-hous] / ˈbʌgˌhaʊs /


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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

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

To get a laugh from Venezuelan vertebrates in the neighborhood, Beebe and company put up a sign reading "LABORATORIO: MANICOMO," i.e., bughouse.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Central Office must be bughouse to send you out looking like such a gillie.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry




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