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

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

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

I could see the instrument panel from where I'd lashed myself fast; it was going completely bughouse.

From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam