loony bin

Questions about loony bin

What does loony bin mean?

loony bin means "pejorative terms for an insane asylum".

What is another word for loony bin?

Close synonyms include Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm. 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 loony bin a common word?

loony bin is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.