insane asylum
noun
now usually offensive
: a hospital for people with mental illness : a mental hospital
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For Fester, getting committed to an insane asylum is a total cakewalk.
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
The centerpiece of Mimi Lien's shapeshifting scenic design is an enormous, multitiered factory crane that lurches over the cast and audience throughout the show: air-dropping Sweeney's death-dealing barber chair, and at one point, doubling as an insane asylum.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
The centerpiece of Mimi Lien's shapeshifting scenic design is an enormous, multitiered factory crane that lurches over the cast and audience throughout the show: air-dropping Sweeney's death-dealing barber chair, and at one point, doubling as an insane asylum.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
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“Insane asylum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insane%20asylum. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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