booby house

English

Noun

booby house (plural booby houses)

1. (slang, derogatory) booby-hatch; lunatic asylum
   • 1929, International Molders' and Foundry Workers' Journal:

     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.