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bughouse

adjective
bug·​house | \ ˈbÉ™g-ËŒhau̇s How to pronounce bughouse (audio) \

Definition of bughouse

 (Entry 1 of 2)

slang
: mentally deranged : crazy

bughouse

noun

Definition of bughouse (Entry 2 of 2)

slang
: an asylum for the mentally ill
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Synonyms & Antonyms for bughouse

Synonyms: Adjective

balmy, barmy [chiefly British], bats, batty, bedlam, bonkers, brainsick, certifiable, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crackpot, cranky [dialect], crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, fruity [slang], gaga, haywire, insane, kooky (also kookie), loco [slang], loony (also looney), loony tunes (or looney tunes), lunatic, mad, maniacal (also maniac), mental, meshuga (or meshugge), moonstruck, non compos mentis, nuts, nutty, psycho, psychotic, scatty [chiefly British], screwy, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacko (also whacko), wacky (also whacky), wud [chiefly Scottish]

Antonyms: Adjective

balanced, compos mentis, sane, sound, uncrazy

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Examples of bughouse in a Sentence

Adjective

 anyone would go bughouse after spending a week with her relatives

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

 At the end of Fletcher Knebel's novels, the bughouse president resigns and the coup is foiled. — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, "Is Trump Actually in Charge? Or Is It Worse Than We Feared?," 14 Apr. 2017

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First Known Use of bughouse

Adjective

1887, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1899, in the meaning defined above

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