crazy house


noun

Slang. an insane asylum.

Origin of crazy house

First recorded in 1885–90

Example sentences from the Web for crazy house

  • Perhaps hed better stop the machine, go back into the garden, climb up to his room in the crazy-house and tumble into bed?

    Nothing But the Truth |Frederic S. Isham
  • It was a crazy-house filled with the most grotesque moral measures.

    Birthright |T.S. Stribling