madhouse
/ˈmædhaʊs/
noun
- A place or situation that is extremely noisy, chaotic, or out of control.
- The shopping mall on Black Friday was an absolute madhouse.
- With three kids running around and the dog barking, our house is a madhouse.
- The office was a madhouse during the final hour before the deadline.
- An old-fashioned term for a hospital for people with mental illness; an insane asylum.
- In the 19th century, patients in a madhouse often received poor treatment.
- The old building on the hill used to be a madhouse before it was closed.
- Historians study the records of the local madhouse to understand past attitudes toward mental health.
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