📖 Definitions of "Bughouse"
noun
- 1
A flea-infested hotel, lodging-house etc.
- 2
A prison.
- 3
A hospital, especially a lunatic asylum.
- 4
A cheap and dirty cinema.
adjective
- 1
Crazy, insane.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Bughouse"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| flea bagnoun | (slang) A disreputable place of accommodation. |
| stinkhousenoun | (slang, derogatory) Any offensively unclean building. |
| fleabagnoun | (slang) A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment. |
| doghousenoun | Any small house or structure or enclosure used to house a dog. |
| booby housenoun | (slang, derogatory) booby-hatch; lunatic asylum |
| bungnoun | A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc. |
| trugging-housenoun | (obsolete) A brothel. |
| bug-walknoun | (UK, slang, obsolete) A bed. |
| mahogany flatnoun | (UK, obsolete, slang) A bedbug. |
| stinkholenoun | (vulgar, slang, derogatory) The anus. |
| chousenoun | (obsolete) One who is easily cheated; a gullible person. |
| booby-hatchnoun | (nautical) A small hatchway in the deck of a ship. |
| flea-bagnoun | Alternative form of fleabag. [(slang) A bed or sleeping bag.] |
| fuckshopnoun | (rare, vulgar) A brothel. |
| roach motelnoun | Something that is easy to enter, but is difficult or costly to leave. |
| bawdy housenoun | Alternative spelling of bawdy-house. [(now chiefly historical, formal) A brothel; a house of prostitution.] |
| bawdyhousenoun | Alternative spelling of bawdy-house. [(now chiefly historical, formal) A brothel; a house of prostitution.] |
| b-flatnoun | (music) The note one semitone below B, notated B♭. |
| shitpitnoun | (slang, vulgar) A very unpleasant location. |
| crowbar hotelnoun | (slang) Jail. |
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