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bughouse
/ˈbʌɡhaʊs/
noun 5adj 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
ready
VERB + BUGHOUSE
seems, train
BUGHOUSE + NOUN
'
ADV.
certainly
Definitions
noun
1
A flea-infested hotel, lodging-house etc.
2
A prison.
3
A hospital, especially a lunatic asylum.
Well, he was ready for the bughouse, certainly.
4
A cheap and dirty cinema.
5
Clipping of bughouse chess
adj
1
Crazy, insane.
“Get up and dress. I can stand a rattlesnake, but I hate a liar. Do I have to tell you again?” He caught McGuire by the neck and stood him on the floor. / “Say, friend,” cried McGuire wildly, “are you bughouse? I’m sick—see? I’ll croak if I got to hustle. What’ve I done to yer?”—he began his chronic whine—“I never asked yer to⸺”
'Just what's up on this train? It seems bughouse to me.'
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Well, he was ready for the bughouse, certainly.
Wiktionary02
“Get up and dress. I can stand a rattlesnake, but I hate a liar. Do I have to tell you again?” He caught McGuire by the neck and stood him on the floor. / “Say, friend,” cried McGuire wildly, “are you
Wiktionary03
'Just what's up on this train? It seems bughouse to me.'
Wiktionary04
Ewball, man, that is some bughouse talk.
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