单词 | bughouse |
释义 | bughouse/ˈbʌɡhaʊs /informal noun 1North American A psychiatric hospital.Yates faced some formidable obstacles: a broken home, tuberculosis, rampant alcoholism, divorce, lack of recognition and manic depression - a combination that sent him, as he put it, ‘in and out of bughouses’....
2 dated A seedy, run-down cinema. adjective North American Crazy.Petulant as a small boy he went "bughouse" when crossed, but he was cunning, and he earned the respect of New York City's top crooks....
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