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nut house; nuthouse
noun
a mental hospital US, 1906- Incidentally, the girl I’d had that night is now in the nut-house, she was picked up, babbling. On the street the next morning. — Neal Cassady, Neal Cassady Collected Letters 1944–1967, p. 53, 9 September 1947: Letter to Jack Kerouac
- This is the man who went to see Ezra Pound at the nuthouse with Robert Lowell. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, p. 208, 16 July 1949
- They’d put you in a nuthouse, Brownie. They wouldn’t give you the gas chamber. — Jim Thompson, The Nothing Man, p. 283, 1954
- The Vigilante is prosecuted in Federal Court under a lynch bill and winds up in a Federal Nut House[.] — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 8, 1957
- He’d been close to a month in this nuthouse and it might be a lot better than a work farm[.] — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 162, 1962
- Old man, they may be about to lock up in a nuthouse. — Robert Gover, The Maniac Responsible, p. 219, 1963
- All you lot oughta be in the nut-house, you’re bonkers, stone raving bonkers. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 34, 1964
- There is a nut house locally[.] — Jenny Eclair, Camberwell Beauty, p. 217, 2000
- They’d sent him to a nut-house on the south coast. — Diran Adebayo, My Once Upon A Time, p. 71, 2000
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