2. Noun. (US slang) A prison. ¹
3. Noun. (US slang) A hospital, especially a lunatic asylum. ¹
4. Noun. (South Africa slang) A cheap and dirty cinema. ¹
5. Adjective. (US slang) Crazy, insane. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bughouse
1. an insane asylum [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bughouse
Literary usage of Bughouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tramping with Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life by Josiah Flynt, Josiah Flynt Willard (1899)
"I wuz nearly bughouse meself. Ef that train hed only hauled np! Ef I bed only
kept 'er from ever gettin' on to it! I e'n'd n' hold 'er, I e'n'd n' speak to ..."
2. The Hohenzollerns in America: With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other by Stephen Leacock (1919)
"“I met Shortis the other night in the street,” went on Mr. bughouse, “and he
said, ‘Come on up to my room in the hotel.' ‘Oh,', I said, ‘I can't very well. ..."
3. The Powers that Prey by Josiah Flynt, Alfred Hodder (1900)
"I don't know the whole o' the details, but I know enough of 'em to understand
that it's a case o' grouch an' not bughouse. ..."
4. The Story of Polar Conquest: The Complete History of Arctic and Antarctic by Logan Marshall (1913)
"Here one of my Eskimos went temporarily ‘bughouse,' and, stripped to the waist
... The husky who was bughouse the night before thawed it out on his stomach. ..."
5. Songs of a Sourdough by Robert William Service (1908)
"It put me queer, and for near a year I never drew sober breath, Till I found
myself in the bughouse ward with a claim staked out on death. ..."
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