Reverse Dictionary: INSANE ASYLUM

NOUNS
► ACADEMY a lunatic asylum → 18C sl.
► BAT HOUSE a psychiatric institution → 1900s US tramps’ sl.
► BEDLAM a lunatic asylum, a madhouse → 1663
► BEDLAM-HOLE a mad-house → 1889 Eng. dial.
► BIN, THE a mental hospital → 1938 sl.
► BOOBY-HATCH a mental hospital → 1896 sl., orig. & chiefly US
► BOOBY HUTCH a mental hospital → 19C sl.
► BUGHOUSE a mental hospital → 1899 US sl.
► BUZZY HOUSE an insane asylum → 1908 Amer. sl.
► CACKLE FACTORY an insane asylum; a mental hospital; a psychiatric institution → 1940s US sl.
► CALLAN PARK a psychiatric institution → 20C Aust. sl.
► CANARY HATCH a psychiatric institution; a ‘loony bin’ → 1966 US sl.
► CHUCKLEBOX n. the psychiatric ward → 1960 US prison sl.
► CRACKER FACTORY a psychiatric institution → 1981 US sl.
► CRAZY HOUSE a mental hospital → 1887 US sl.
► CUCKOO HOUSE a mental hospital → 1930 US sl.
► CUCKOO’S NEST a mental hospital → 1962 US sl.
► DAFFY HOUSE a psychiatric institution; an asylum for the insane → 1902 US sl.
► DAFFY JOINT a psychiatric institution; an asylum for the insane → 1908 US sl.
► DARK HOUSE a place of confinement for a madman; a room used to confine the insane → 1600 obs.
► DOWN THE LINE a psychiatric hospital → 1963 NZ sl.
► DULL-HOUSE 1622 obs. – a mad-house
► FARM a psychiatric institution → 1940s US sl.
► FUNNY BIN a psychiatric institution → 20C US sl.
► FUNNY FACTORY a psychiatric institution → 20C US sl.
► FUNNY-FARM an insane asylum; a mental hospital; a psychiatric institution → 1950 sl.
► FUNNY HOUSE a mental hospital → 1906 US sl.
► FUNNY PLACE a psychiatric institution → 20C US sl.
► GIGGLE-HOUSE a mental hospital → 1919 Aust. & NZ sl.
► GREEN CART an imaginary vehicle used to take people to an asylum for the insane → 1935 Aust. sl.
► LAUGHING ACADEMY a mental institution; an insane asylum → 1947 sl.
► LAUGHING FARM a mental institution; an insane asylum → 1965 US sl.
► LAUGHING HOUSE an insane asylum → 1955 US sl.
► LAUGHING SCHOOL an insane asylum → 1966 US sl.
► LOONY BIN a hospital or other institution for the treatment of psychiatric problems and other mental illness → 1919 UK sl.
► LOONY FARM an insane asylum → 1977 US sl.
► LOONY HOUSE a hospital for the insane → 1977 US sl.
► LOONY PEN a hospital for the insane → 1984 US sl.
► MAZE-HOUSE an asylum or madhouse → 1873 Eng. dial.
► MENTAL a psychiatric institution → 1980s Irish sl.
► MONKEY-HOUSE an institution in which people are kept locked up; a secure psychiatric hospital or prison → 1910 colloq.
► NUT BIN a psychiatric institution → 1990 sl.
► NUTBOX a psychiatric institution → 1965 US sl.
► NUT COLLEGE a lunatic asylum → 1897 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► NUT FACTORY a psychiatric institution → 1899 sl.
► NUT FARM a psychiatric institution → 1899 US sl.
► NUT FOUNDRY a psychiatric institution → 1932 US sl.
► NUT HATCH a psychiatric institution → 1942 US sl. (Bk.)
► NUTHOUSE an insane asylum → 1906 Amer. sl.
► NUT HUT a psychiatric institution → 2004 sl.
► NUT PLACE a psychiatric institution → 1963 US sl.
► NUTTERY a psychiatric institution → 1914 US sl.
► NUT WARD a psychiatric unit → 20C US sl.
► RAT HOUSE a mental hospital → 1900 Aust. & NZ sl.
► SILLY HOUSE a psychiatric institution → 1960s sl.
► SNAKE-PIT a mental hospital → 1947 sl.
► WACKY HOUSE a psychiatric institution → 1930s US criminals’ sl.
► WOW, THE a psychiatric institution → 1940s NZ sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BAM-BAM a psychiatric patient → 2000 US prison sl.

PHRASES
► ANOTHER ONE FOR THE VAN someone else has to be taken to the lunatic asylum → 1920s

VERBS
► BUG to confine someone in a psychiatric ward → 1992 US sl.
► JACKET to threaten someone with confinement in a lunatic asylum → L19 sl.
► PLAY WITH THE SQUIRRELS to be an inmate of an insane asylum → Bk1934 sl.