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loony bin

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loony bin
n. Offensive Slang
An institution for the mentally ill.
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Noun1.loony binloony bin - pejorative terms for an insane asylum
booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit, Bedlam
mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital, insane asylum, asylum, institution - a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person


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In some kind of eternally overcast Europe where the 18th and 21st centuries co-exist, Jean is suffering from horrendous dreams of being menaced by thick, grinning bald guys with straitjackets, and hauled off to the loony bin.
AN UNREALITY CHECK FOR THE ADVENTUROUS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
What was once the loony bin, let's-bomb-them-to-hell branch of the Republican Party is now the right, not the "far right.
Slanting the Story: The Forces that Shapes the News by Douglas, Susan / The Progressive
But we're soon out of such Strindbergian depths as Carly zooms around trying to expose the government plot and spring her husband from the loony bin.
Blue Skies by Alleva, Richard / Commonweal
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