plural bughouses
informal + disparaging
: an institution providing care to mentally unsound individuals
Examples of bughouse in a Sentence
Adjective
anyone would go bughouse after being stuck on an airplane for 7 hours
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Bryan Box, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
At the end of Fletcher Knebel's novels, the bughouse president resigns and the coup is foiled.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Apr. 2017
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Noun
Radicalized nutballs are just starting to bubble to the surface of the national consciousness—like this tantrum-throwing buffoon, Landon Copeland, who took the hearing for his role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol as an opportunity to turn a court of law into a MAGA bughouse.
—Bryan Box, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
At the end of Fletcher Knebel's novels, the bughouse president resigns and the coup is foiled.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Apr. 2017
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“Bughouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bughouse. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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