nut-foundry

nut-foundry

old-fashioned slang A derogatory and offensive term for a psychiatric hospital or insane asylum. "Nut" is a derogatory slang term meaning "a crazy person." My great aunt Lidia apparently got locked up in a nut-foundry when she was a teenager because she said she could commune with ghosts. I can't go to the police about it! They'd throw me in the nut-foundry if I came to them with such an unbelievable story.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

nut-foundry

verb
See nuthouse
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • nut factory
  • nuthatch
  • nuthouse
  • foundry
  • nuttery
  • saltine
  • queen
  • Queens
  • nutter
  • nut case