booby house

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booby house

noun booby houses

  1. derogatory, slang booby-hatch; lunatic asylum As for taking the kinks out of weak backs, straightening them out and tightening them up around the waist, that's old stuff in all the booby houses where the keepers clap the patients in strait jackets.

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@misc{booby_house_2026,
  title = {booby house},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/booby%20house},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}