booby hatch

Questions about booby hatch

What does booby hatch mean?

booby hatch means "pejorative terms for an insane asylum".

What is another word for booby hatch?

Close synonyms include Bedlam, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is booby hatch a common word?

booby hatch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.