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Booby Hatch

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Noun

1. bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit

pejorative terms for an insane asylum

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Booby Hatch

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noun
1. 
a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
2. US offensive, slang
a psychiatric hospital

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Booby Hatch

see synonyms of booby hatch
1. 
a covering over a small hatchway on a ship
2.  US, Slang
an institution for the mentally ill

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Booby Hatch

see synonyms of booby hatch
n.
1. Nautical A raised covering over a small hatchway.
2. Offensive Slang An institution for the mentally ill.

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