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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
madhouse
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The police station is a madhouse most of the time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hackney has always been a resort for madhouses and mad people.
▪ Imagine you're at home and you're not going back to that madhouse.
▪ It's like a madhouse in there.
▪ It is easy to understand why he is in the madhouse.
▪ On account of the bust they can put me back in the madhouse for life.
▪ The house was like a madhouse.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Madhouse

Madhouse \Mad"house`\, n.

  1. An house or institution where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam; -- usually used in a deprecatory sense.

    Syn: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, nuthouse, sanatorium.

  2. Hence: (fig.) A chaotic, raucus or highly disordered situation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
madhouse

1680s, from mad + house (n.). Figurative use by 1919.

Wiktionary
madhouse

n. 1 A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum 2 A place exhibiting stereotypical characteristics of such a house.

WordNet
madhouse

n. pejorative terms for an insane asylum [syn: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit]

Wikipedia
Madhouse (company)

is a Japanese animation studio, founded in 1972 by ex– Mushi Pro animators, including Masao Maruyama, Osamu Dezaki, Rintaro, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri.

Madhouse has created and helped to produce many well known shows, starting with TV anime series Ace o Nerae! (produced by Tokyo Movie) in 1973, and including Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Trigun, Di Gi Charat, Death Note, and most recently, One-Punch Man. Unlike other studios founded at this time such as AIC and J.C.Staff, their strength was and is primarily in TV shows and theatrical features. Expanding from the initial Mushi Pro staff, Madhouse recruited such important directors as Morio Asaka, Masayuki Kojima, and Satoshi Kon during the 1990s. Their staff roster expanded in the 2000s to include Mamoru Hosoda, Takeshi Koike, and Mitsuo Iso, as well as many younger television directors. The studio was also responsible for the first Beyblade anime series as well as the Dragon Drive anime, and the 2011 anime adaptation of Hunter × Hunter.

The studio often collaborates with known manga artists, including Naoki Urasawa and Clamp. Madhouse produced adaptations of Urasawa's YAWARA!, Master Keaton and Monster, with Masayuki Kojima helming the later two. The company has animated a number of CLAMP's titles, including Tokyo Babylon, two versions of X (a theatrical movie and a TV series), Cardcaptor Sakura, Chobits, and '' CLAMP in Wonderland. ''

Madhouse (1990 film)

Madhouse is a 1990 comedy film starring Kirstie Alley and John Larroquette.

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Madhouse (band)

Madhouse is a jazz fusion band from Minneapolis that was created by Prince . Two Madhouse albums (and several singles) were officially released in 1987.

Madhouse (2004 film)

Madhouse is a 2004 horror film, directed and co-written by William Butler and starring Joshua Leonard.

It was released directly to DVD on December 20, 2004 in the United Kingdom and on February 22, 2005 in the United States.

Madhouse (1974 film)

Madhouse is a 1974 British horror film directed by Jim Clark for Amicus Productions in association with American International Pictures. It stars Vincent Price, Natasha Pyne, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri and Linda Hayden.

Madhouse (song)

"Madhouse" is a song by the American thrash metal band Anthrax. It was released in 1985 on Megaforce/ Island Records.

Madhouse (Silver Convention album)

Madhouse is a 1976 album by German euro-disco group Silver Convention, which at the time consisted of vocalists Penny McLean, Ramona Wolf and Rhonda Heath, along with producer-songwriters Michael Kunze (aka Stephan Prager) and Sylvester Levay. The album is considered to be "funkier" than their previous releases". The album proved to be a moderate success, gaining considerable play at disco clubs at the time, but charted lower than Silver Convention's previous two releases, reaching number 65 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and number 47 on the Billboard Black Albums chart. The album has since been released on iTunes in several countries.

Madhouse (1981 film)

Madhouse (original title: There Was a Little Girl; also known as And When She Was Bad) is a 1981 Italian slasher film directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis. It stars Trish Everly, Dennis Robertson, Allison Biggers, Michael Macrae, Morgan Hart, Edith Ivey and Jerry Fujikawa. The film features a musical score by Riz Ortolani and cinematography by Assonitis regular Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli.

It was one of the many films on the " video nasty" list, a list of horror/ exploitation films banned by the BBFC in the 1980s for violence and obscenity.

MadHouse (TV series)

MadHouse was a TV series that aired on the American cable History Channel in 2010. It follows four teams of Modified class race car drivers through the 2009 season at Bowman Gray Stadium. The Modified Division is NASCAR's oldest division, and while the Northeast is the most popular region for this class of motorsport (NASCAR Hall of Fame member Richie Evans from Rome, NY, was an eight-time Modified Division champion and won the inaugural touring series championship for Modifieds), it is a fan favorite at the Piedmont Triad's quarter-mile speedway.

Junior Miller, Tim "The Rocket" Brown, Burt and Jason Myers and Chris Fleming are the five drivers who are followed throughout the series. Later drivers Jonathan "Jon Boy" Brown, Austin Pack, and Gene Pack are introduced to the audience.

Madhouse (ride)

A Madhouse is a flat ride manufactured by Vekoma. The ride is designed to be an optical and physical illusion, consisting of several rows of seats attached to a swaying gondola within a rotating drum. The ride creates the impression that the rider is turning upside down, whereas it is actually the room that is moving around them.

The ride is a modern implementation of a haunted swing illusion.

Mack Rides also builds similar attractions, calling them "Revolving House".

Madhouse (magazine)

Madhouse was an Argentine heavy metal music magazine edited from 1989 to 2001. It was established by César Fuentes Rodríguez, along with other journalists from the former Riff Raff magazine.

Madhouse was the first Argentine heavy metal magazine to arrange interviews with international bands, instead of translating such interviews taken from international magazines. Unlike the Metal magazine, it had an informal style and wrote harsh critics to recordings or plays they did not consider of good quality. It had a higher success as a result, and Metal ended publication in 1994.

The magazine released some special editions as well, titled "Madhouse extra". Those special editions were specifically about a certain selected band. Some bands that got a special edition were Hermética, AC/DC, Kiss, Pantera, Megadeth, Marilyn Manson, etc. There was another special edition devoted to the Death metal genre in general as well.

César Fuentes Rodríguez put aside the magazine in 1997 and established Epopeya, a new heavy metal magazine specifically about Power metal and Traditional heavy metal, while Madhouse would continue to focus on all the varieties of heavy metal music.

The magazines did not endure the 2001 Argentine economic crisis, and ended their publication by the end of 2001. César Fuentes Rodríguez left Argentina and moved to Spain for a few years. Then returned to continue publishing and working in media.

Category:1989 establishments in Argentina Category:2001 disestablishments in Argentina Category:Argentine heavy metal Category:Defunct magazines of Argentina Category:Heavy metal publications Category:Spanish-language magazines Category:Magazines established in 1989 Category:Magazines disestablished in 2001 Category:Monthly magazines

Usage examples of "madhouse".

Gone to join George Buffins in the great madhouse in the sky, no doubt.

And when the first frump blast exploded a glass counter full of jewelry to oblivion, the place became a madhouse of screaming, writhing insanity.

Well, sometimes Keelie and I talked about what a madhouse the city can be.

The archbishop, persuaded by his many well-written and well-reasoned letters, ordered one of his chaplains to learn from the superintendent of the madhouse if what the licentiate had written was true, and to speak to the madman as well, and, if it seemed he was in his right mind, to release him and set him free.

Uncle Vester can, is enough to drive the silly chucklehead into a madhouse!

The room was a madhouse, with ABA employees trying to herd the reporters and the reporters clearly wondering, more or less out loud, how they were going to manage to put together any kind of wordage at all.

Got a car outside and the sooner we get away from this blankety blank madhouse the better.

I assumed this place would be a madhouse of pols and newsies, with Li and his buddies trotting every one of their candidates through here, giving each of those clowns a chance to sound off for the electorate.

Even the Warreners, whose ancestors were gathered from the gutters and the madhouses and the prisons, have food and water, beds and shelter, clothing and protection, supplied by us from cradle to grave.

By this time Asuncion must have been like a madhouse, for no one seems to have been astonished, or even to have thought his conduct singular.

After a detention which lasted forty days, they escaped and fled to Corrientes, which must have looked upon Asuncion as a vast madhouse.

He was a close correspondent of the notorious Baudelairean poet Justin Geoffrey, who wrote The People of the Monolith and died screaming in a madhouse in 1926 after a visit to a sinister, ill-regarded village in Hungary.

Leia listened, to the budding argument fade away, for the umpteenth time thanking the Force that she was at least temporarily no longer the one in charge of this madhouse.

Benjamin Bathurst, who, until now, was well-behaved and seemed to take his confinement philosophically, should suddenly make this rash and fatal attempt, unless it was because of those infernal dunderheads of madhouse doctors who have been bothering him.

No, no she gave this answer emphatically to herself all marriages could not be like this, or else the madhouses would be more full than they were now.