Usually means: Secure psychiatric hospital or ward.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. booby hatch, the booby hatch: Merriam-Webster
  2. booby hatch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. booby hatch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. booby hatch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. booby hatch: Vocabulary.com
  6. booby-hatch, booby hatch: Wordnik
  7. booby-hatch, booby hatch: Wiktionary
  8. booby hatch: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Booby hatch, booby hatch: Dictionary.com
  10. Booby hatch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Booby hatch: Rhymezone
  12. booby hatch: FreeDictionary.org
  13. booby hatch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. booby hatch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. booby hatch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. booby hatch: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. booby hatch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Booby hatch)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of booby-hatch [(nautical) A small hatchway in the deck of a ship.]

Similar:
funny farm, madhouse, nuthouse, sanatorium, bedlam, loony bin, crazy house, funny house, booby-hatch, hatch, more...

Opposite:
sane asylum, mental hospital, psychiatric ward

Types:
asylum, looney bin, nuthouse, funny farm, insane asylum, mental institution, more...

Adjectives:
jury, cat, leg, sole, yar, gammon, pooped, pocket, limmer, thrum, norman

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Similar:
funny farm, madhouse, nuthouse, sanatorium, bedlam, loony bin, crazy house, funny house, booby-hatch, hatch, more...

Opposite:
sane asylum, mental hospital, psychiatric ward

Types:
asylum, looney bin, nuthouse, funny farm, insane asylum, mental institution, more...

Adjectives:
jury, cat, leg, sole, yar, gammon, pooped, pocket, limmer, thrum, norman



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