crazy house

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   pejorative terms for an insane asylum

   SynonymsBedlambooby hatchcuckoo's nestfunny farmfunny houseloony binmadhousenut housenuthousesanatoriumsnake pit

   Broadermental hospital

Questions about crazy house

What does crazy house mean?

crazy house means "pejorative terms for an insane asylum".

What is another word for crazy house?

Close synonyms include Bedlam, booby hatch, 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 crazy house a common word?

crazy house 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.