booby house

noun

booby house

noun

1

Derogatory, Slang booby-hatch; lunatic asylum

As for taking the kinks out of weak backs, straightening them out and tightening them up around the waist, that's old stuff in all the booby houses where the keepers clap the patients in strait jackets.1929, International Molders' and Foundry Workers' Journal:

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