bughouse
Americannoun
PLURAL
bughousesadjective
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012adjective
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of bughouse
Example Sentences
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Pound entertained visiting poets and anti-Semites at St. Elizabeths, which he called “the Bughouse.”
From Washington Post
She also sold a middle-grade novel, coming in 2020; signed up as a consulting producer on W. Kamau Bell’s CNN series, “United Shades of America”; and began hosting a new podcast, “Bughouse Square,” inspired by the archives of another Chicago gadfly, Studs Terkel.
From New York Times
Daniel Swift’s most recent book, “The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound,” was published last fall.
From New York Times
Eventually, Price goes totally bughouse and tries to slice someone in half with a massive, swinging Cuisinart blade that he maintains in the cellar.
From Slate
Youth Lagoon released three albums in the last five years: 2011’s The Year of Hibernation, 2013’s Wondrous Bughouse, and 2015’s Savage Hills Ballroom.
From Time
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