booby hatches
Slang for asylums
Booby hatches is the plural of booby hatch, slang for a psychiatric hospital or insane asylum: They'll cart you off to the booby hatch if you keep talking like that.
The term is old-fashioned and dismissive, treating mental illness as a joke.
Originally, a booby hatch was a small hatch cover on a ship's deck.
- insane asylumFacility for mentally ill
- sanitariumMedical recovery facility
- straitjacketGarment restricting arm movement
- strait jacketGarment immobilizing the arms
- madhouseChaotic, disordered place
asylum · snake pits · rubber room · loony bin · confinement · lobotomy · seclusion · scupper · psychiatric ward · bulkhead · retreats · custody · crow's nest · lunatic asylums · bedlam · institutionalization · cuckoo's nest · safe haven
booby hatchespsychiatric hospitals
Inpatient facilities for mental illness
mental health clinics · wellness centers · rehabilitation facilities · outpatient clinics · recovery programs
booby hatchesfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · home · independent living · community living · self-determination
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