funny farm

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funny farm

noun funny farms

  1. slang An insane asylum. Paddy the Duke was right. I had one more "tour of duty" to put in at the funny farm. They turned me loose a few days after he left, sometime in the winter months of 1959, but in a little more than a year's time I would be back at Avalon Valley; and I would be a very sick man.

    Similar: nuthouse, bedlam, bin, booby-hatch, booby house, bughouse, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, happy hotel, insane asylum, laughing academy

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@misc{funny_farm_2026,
  title = {funny farm},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/funny%20farm},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}