loony bin

Noun

Meaning

pejorative terms for an insane asylum

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

bedlam madhouse nuthouse funny farm booby hatch nut house sanatorium asylum sanitarium snake pit psychiatric hospital insane asylum mental hospital mental institution mental home

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Hypernyms

institution asylum psychiatric hospital mental hospital insane asylum mental institution

Examples

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin. Desmond Llewelyn

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. Ernest Hemingway

[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. George Orwell

Close letter words and terms

looning loonsome loony loony left loony lefty loony toon