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bughouse

[buhg-haus] / 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

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

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

I dragged out two days later, way north o' the buttes—plumb bughouse, my tongue all black and stiff as rubber.

From The She Boss A Western Story by Arthur Preston Hankins




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