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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bughouse

1902 (n.) "insane asylum;" 1891 (adj.) "insane," from bug (n.) + house (n.); perhaps originally tramps' slang.

Wiktionary
bughouse

a. (context US slang English) crazy, insane. n. 1 (context US slang English) A flea-infested hotel, lodging-house etc. 2 (context US slang English) A prison. 3 (context US slang English) A hospital, especially a lunatic asylum. 4 (context South Africa slang English) A cheap and dirty cinema.

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Bughouse

Bughouse can refer to:

  • A psychiatric hospital
  • Bughouse chess
  • Operation Bughouse, an alternate name for the fictional Battle of Klendathu in Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers
  • Bughouse Bay on the north side of Drury Inlet in the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada
    • Bughouse Lake, immediately behind and north of Bughouse Bay

Usage examples of "bughouse".

Operation Bughouse, the First Battle of Klendathu in the history books, soon after Buenos Aires was smeared.

Operation Bughouse when a major commanded a brigade, before the Sove-ki-poo?

Between Clark and Dearborn streets, in Washington Square, in front of the Newberry Library, was Bughouse Square.

When that is the case, there is a cut-off, the individual is thrown back on himself, and he is in prime shape for that psychotic break-away that will turn him into either an essential schizophrenic in a padded cell, or a paranoid screaming slogans at large, in a bughouse without walls.

If you take if off, various proximity detectors will register an uncarded intruder and go bughouse.

It was Operation Bughouse, the First Battle of Klendathu in the history books, soon after Buenos Aires was smeared.

Operation Bughouse when a major commanded a brigade, before the Sove-ki-poo?

When that is the case, there is a cut-off, the individual is thrown back on himself, and he is in prime shape for that psychotic break-away that will turn him into either an essential schizophrenic in a padded cell, or a paranoid screaming slogans at large, in a bughouse without walls.

Monty Hayward felt as he had done in the hotel in Munichthat the Saint must have gone bughouse under the strain.

Overcome with the shock of discovering his mistake, he went slightly bughouse, and seemed to imagine that he was a seagull.

The far end was occupied by racks each holding a quartet of meter-square custom-designed new bughouses.

The bugshit had not proved nearly as smelly or abundant as Kareen had expected, which was nice, as the task of cleaning the bughouses daily had fallen to her.

It was the only groupware she'd ever installed-ever seen, even-that actually worked, in the sense that it genuinely helped a group manage rather than slowly driving its users bughouse.