bughouse

noun

1. (US, slang)A flea-infested hotel, lodging-house etc.
2. (US, slang)A prison.
3. (US, slang)A hospital, especially a lunatic asylum.

   “Well, he was ready for the bughouse, certainly.”

4. (South-Africa, slang)A cheap and dirty cinema.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of bughouse chess

adj

1. (US, slang)Crazy, insane.

   ““Get up and dress. I can stand a rattlesnake, but I hate a liar. Do I have to tell you again?” He caught McGuire by the neck and stood him on the floor. / “Say, friend,” cried McGuire wildly, “are you bughouse? I’m sick—see? I’ll croak if I got to hustle. What’ve I done to yer?”—he began his chronic whine—“I never asked yer to⸺””

   “'Just what's up on this train? It seems bughouse to me.'”

   “Ewball, man, that is some bughouse talk.”