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
Petulant as a small boy he went "bughouse" when crossed, but he was cunning, and he earned the respect of New York City's top crooks.
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
You take off your pants when you go out to feed your chickens, say, and you're not bughouse.
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway
